Subject: Re: [PATCH] man ip-link: Add more explanation about vlan reordering

From: Vadim Kochan <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2015 19:58:01 +0300

On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 04:27:48PM +0100, Jeremy Harris wrote:
> On 17/08/15 20:22, Vadim Kochan wrote:
> > +.BR reorder_hdr " is " on
> > +then VLAN header will be not inserted immediately but only before passing to the
> > +physical device (if this device does not support VLAN offloading), the similar
> > +on the RX direction - by default the packet will be untagged before being
> > +received by VLAN device. Reordering allows to accelerate tagging on egress and
> > +to hide VLAN header on ingress so the packet looks like regular Ethernet packet,
> > +at the same time it might be confusing while the packet sniffing as the VLAN header
>                                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> Does not read well.  "for packet capture" perhaps?
> -- 
> Jeremy
> 
> 

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for you comment, I have sent a patch, let me know if it is correct now.
And sorry for so late response.

Thanks,
Vadim Kochan