netdev - Re: feature request for kernel module 8021q

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Date:   Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:02:04 +0200
From:   Pierre Colombier <pierre@...ille.com>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: feature request for kernel module 8021q


>> One interesting feature would be to have a special vlan number
>>
>> (let's say 0 or -1 or 4097 ) designed so that it gets all the untagged
>> trafic and only the untagged trafic.
> 4097 is not a valid number nor is -1 since that closely follows what the VLAN ID extracted from the tag would be. VLAN 0 is more or less the untagged VLAN.
I know -1 or 4097 are invalid numbers
This is precicely why i suggested them as "special"
I wasn't aware of the existing Vlan 0 feature
I just tried again and it seems to be exactly what I was requesting.

What do you mean by "more or less" ?