netdev - Re: VLAN 1

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Date:	Thu, 02 Feb 2012 13:10:16 +0100
From:	Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@...rsen.dk>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	yao zhao <yao.development@...il.com>,
	Leonardo Uzcudun <uzcudunl@...oo.it>,
	"netdev\@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: VLAN 1 - Native

Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> writes:

> There is no ID reserved to untagged traffic in the 802.1Q specs, since
> by definition, if traffic is untagged, there is _no_ VLAN tag in the
> frame.

This is not entirely true. If you want to send 802.1p-tagged packets
without a specific VLAN, you should use the 0 tag. I would say that
comes quite close to "The ID reserved to untagged traffic is 0".

It is, however, not 1.


/Benny
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