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From: "Séguier Régis" <rseguier@e-teleport•net>
To: Kevin Shanahan <kmshanah@disenchant•net>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with VLANs and via-velocity driver
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:36:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AFD36C0.3090302@e-teleport.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AFCFF67.3060802@trash.net>

Patrick McHardy a écrit :
> Kevin Shanahan wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've had some problems with getting a fairly simple (I thought) VLAN
>> configuration working with the on board Via NICs on my Via M700
>> board. Looks like as soon as a tagged VLAN interface is added, the
>> underlying "raw" (untagged) interface stops responding.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> A bit of searching found a few references to similar problems going
>> back a few years (2005, 2007). Sounded like there were some driver
>> issues, but it wasn't clear from the messages I found whether they
>> were believed to be fixed or not. I tried the same test using a
>> differnt NIC with the tg3 driver and there were no problems, so it
>> looks to me like it's still a via-velocity issue. Unfortunately I
>> don't have room to add NICs to this machine and need to use the on
>> board Via hardware.
>>     
>
> There's some special-casing for VID 0 in velocity_init_cam_filter().
> Does "ip link add link eth0 type vlan id 0" make any difference?
> If not, does "ip link set eth0 promisc on"?
>   
When we patch the driver to support multiple vlan, we decide to use the 
vlan 0 to desactivate the vlan filtering.

via-velocity: fix vlan receipt

- vlans were using a single CAM register (see mac_set_vlan_cam)
- setting the address filtering registers for vlans is not
  needed when there is no vlan

The non-tagged interface is filtered out as soon as a tagged
(!= 0) interface is created. Its traffic appears again when an
zero-tagged interface is created.

Tested on Via Epia SN (VT6130 chipset) with several vlans whose
tag was above or beyond 255.

Signed-off-by: Séguier Régis <rseguier@e-teleport•net>
Acked-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr•zoreil.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat•com>
-- 
Régis Séguier

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-13 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-13  3:32 Problem with VLANs and via-velocity driver Kevin Shanahan
2009-11-13  6:40 ` Patrick McHardy
2009-11-13 10:36   ` Séguier Régis [this message]
2009-11-13 11:11     ` Patrick McHardy
2009-11-13 11:40       ` Séguier Régis
2009-11-19 15:17         ` Patrick McHardy
2009-11-16  0:57   ` Kevin Shanahan
2009-11-19 15:18     ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-10 16:43     ` Tiago Pierezan Camargo
2010-02-10 16:46       ` Patrick McHardy
2010-02-11 16:50         ` Tiago Pierezan Camargo
2010-02-11 16:59           ` Patrick McHardy

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