Subject: Re: VLAN patches

From: Eran Mann <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 09:32:46 +0200

David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Eran Mann 
>    
>    Regarding the 0 VID it is indeed used for priority-only frames. 
>    Shouldn't it be supported by alowing the user to configure a priority 
>    map for the ethernet device (rather than creating another user-visible 
>    device?
> 
> I don't have any opinion about this, besides the fact that if
> the device based interface we have now can do whatever the user
> wants we should not add a new configuration mechanism just to provide
> some alias that effectively accomplishes the same task.
> 
I was thinking more in the line of:
# vconfig set_egress_map eth0 XX YY
etc...
(once CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q=y|m ofcourse)
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