Subject: Re: network interface cards native vlans support in linux kernel?

From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 10:13:11 -0700

Hen, Shmulik wrote:
> Do you mean "native" as in hardware acceleration offloading?
> If that's the case than the 8021q vlan module handshakes with the device driver to check for support and that's it. No need to do any settings on the device. In case there is no offloading support, the vlan module will take care of all stripping/inserting of the vlan tag into place.
> On the other hand, if the device cannot handle 1504 byte packets, it defines itself as "vlan challenged" and you can't use vlan on it at all.

Even challenged ones can work if you set your MTU (and all peer MTUs) to 4 less than normal,
ie 1496.

Ben

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