vlan filtering

[Jack Vogel]

On 8/31/07, Tom Judge <tom at tomjudge.com> wrote:
> Jack Vogel wrote:
> > I was just working on a bug in the Oplin driver that had me look
> > a bit more at VLAN code than I had previously.
> >
> > FreeBSD has apparently never used the hardware vlan filtering
> > that our hardware can do, is there a systemic reason for this,
> > or has the code lagged in its use of the system?
> >
> > I at least don't understand how the driver is supposed to get
> > the vlan id to set in the filter, am I just unenlightened? :)
> >
> > If this is doable I can add code into em as well as ixgbe.
> >
> > Jack
>
> This isn't really directly related but could be important for some
> users.  If you where to use this would the card handle Q in Q properly
> with the filter on or would there have to be some form of administrative
> option to turn the hardware filter on/off?

I like flexibility, so having it be a feature that could be enabled or not
seems like a good idea to me. Once I understand the situation we'll
see.

Cheers,

Jack