netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] NET: Re-add VLAN tag for devices incapable of keeping it

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Message-ID: <m3y7db45ga.fsf@maximus.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:03:17 +0100
From:	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	djohnson+linux-kernel@...starentnetworks.com,
	jes@...ined-monkey.org, mchan@...adcom.com, ram.vepa@...erion.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bguo@...starentnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] NET: Re-add VLAN tag for devices incapable of keeping it

Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net> writes:

> I think there is one more case that matters, which is briding
> from a device with VLAN stripping for a VLAN not configured
> locally. The tag will be stripped and will be lost for forwarded
> packets.

I think we should drop such packets on RX. Anyway we shouldn't
forward them.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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