Subject: Re: [RFC VLAN 01/10]: Fix off-by-ones in VLAN ID checks

From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 09:16:31 -0700

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> [VLAN]: Fix off-by-ones in VLAN ID checks
>
> The valid range of VLAN IDs is 0-4095, fix using ID 4095.
>   
Per http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/download/802.1Q-1998.pdf
page 69

0xFFF is reserved for future use, so we should not be using VLANs with 
that VID.

Thanks,
Ben

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