Subject: Re: [VLAN] VLAN patches

From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 09:19:39 -0700

Dave Santucci wrote:
> Bjorn
> 	Since the data type for the vlan_id is specified as an "unsigned short",
> 	The comparison (vlan_id < 0) will always be false due to the range of the data
>  	type.
> 
> 	-ds
> 	
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andersson Björn [mailto:[email-masked]] 
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 1:24 AM
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: [VLAN] VLAN patches
> 
> Hi,
> I hope you are the right receiver of 8021q-patches.
> We are running SuSe 8.0, i.e kernel 2.4.18.
> 
> - When addding several egress-mappings we get stuck in an eternal
> loop if they end up in the same hash-bucket, see vlan_dev.c.path.
> 
> - If we try to remove a vlan with VID 0, ifconfig stops working
> completly.
> We fixed it with vlan.c.patch.

Is there any reason to ever let someone add a VLAN of ID 0 in the first place?

Ben

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