Subject: Re: how to set vlan filter for intel 82599

From: Ben Hutchings <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:31:44 +0100

On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 12:39 +0800, zhou rui wrote:
[...]
> i set the filter like below:
> 
> for a vlanid=50, it always match the last rule (action 7)
> 
> ./ethtool -K eth5 ntuple off
> ./ethtool -K eth5 ntuple on
> ./ethtool -U eth5 flow-type tcp4 vlan 32 vlan-mask 0xF01F action 1
> ./ethtool -U eth5 flow-type udp4 vlan 32 vlan-mask 0xF01F action 1
> ./ethtool -U eth5 flow-type udp4 vlan 64 vlan-mask 0xF01F action 7
> ./ethtool -U eth5 flow-type tcp4 vlan 64 vlan-mask 0xF01F action 7
> 
> I tried the latest ixgbe driver 3.3.9, it reports:
> 
> Cannot add new RX n-tuple filter: Operation not permitted
> 
> ./ethtool -V
> ethtool version 2.6.36

Check dmesg; there should be an error message there.  Of course the
error code should be EINVAL and not EPERM.

Ben.

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