public inbox for netdev@vger.kernel.org 
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel•com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare•com>
Cc: zhou rui <zhourui.cn@gmail•com>,
	"netdev@vger•kernel.org" <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	"e1000-devel@lists•sourceforge.net"
	<e1000-devel@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: how to set vlan filter for intel 82599
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:22:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DB6E34F.5000203@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303824705.3032.359.camel@localhost>

On 4/26/2011 6:31 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 12:39 +0800, zhou rui wrote:
> [...]
>> i set the filter like below:
>>
>> for a vlanid=50, it always match the last rule (action 7)
>>
>> ./ethtool -K eth5 ntuple off
>> ./ethtool -K eth5 ntuple on
>> ./ethtool -U eth5 flow-type tcp4 vlan 32 vlan-mask 0xF01F action 1
>> ./ethtool -U eth5 flow-type udp4 vlan 32 vlan-mask 0xF01F action 1
>> ./ethtool -U eth5 flow-type udp4 vlan 64 vlan-mask 0xF01F action 7
>> ./ethtool -U eth5 flow-type tcp4 vlan 64 vlan-mask 0xF01F action 7
>>
>> I tried the latest ixgbe driver 3.3.9, it reports:
>>
>> Cannot add new RX n-tuple filter: Operation not permitted
>>
>> ./ethtool -V
>> ethtool version 2.6.36
>
> Check dmesg; there should be an error message there.  Of course the
> error code should be EINVAL and not EPERM.
>
> Ben.
>

The problem is likely the vlan-mask.  The only valid VLAN masks 
supported are 0xFFFF, 0x0FFF, 0xF000, and 0x0000.  The hardware cannot 
partially mask either the priority nor the VLAN TCI.

Thanks,

Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-26 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-26  2:19 how to set vlan filter for intel 82599 zhou rui
2011-04-26  2:57 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-04-26  3:39   ` zhou rui
2011-04-26  3:51     ` Ben Hutchings
2011-04-26  4:39       ` zhou rui
2011-04-26 13:31         ` Ben Hutchings
2011-04-26 15:22           ` Alexander Duyck [this message]
2011-04-26 15:30             ` zhou rui

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=4DB6E34F.5000203@intel.com \
    --to=alexander.h.duyck@intel$(echo .)com \
    --cc=bhutchings@solarflare$(echo .)com \
    --cc=e1000-devel@lists$(echo .)sourceforge.net \
    --cc=netdev@vger$(echo .)kernel.org \
    --cc=zhourui.cn@gmail$(echo .)com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox