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

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:16:46 +0200

Ben Greear wrote:
> 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, I just noticed id 4095 didn't work and assumed it was a bug.
I'm going to drop that patch.