netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: vlan: 802.1ad S-VLAN support

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 7 Nov 2011 23:02:20 +0100
From:	David Lamparter <equinox@...c24.net>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	David Lamparter <equinox@...c24.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: vlan: 802.1ad S-VLAN support

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 01:41:42PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Sat,  5 Nov 2011 17:54:14 +0100
> David Lamparter <equinox@...c24.net> wrote:
> 
> > - *	@h_vlan_proto: ethernet protocol (always 0x8100)
> > + *	@h_vlan_proto: ethernet protocol (0x8100, 0x88a8, 0x9x00)
> 
> It seems this patch is mixing stacked vlan's and the ability to
> set ethernet protocol field. Aren't the two capabilities really
> separate protocol extensions?

This patch does not affect stacked vlans at all. The "QinQ" in the
title refers to Nortel's 0x9100/0x9200/0x9300 protocol values, which
were marketed as "QinQ" (the protocol value was used to signal the
stacking depth to the switch to ease hw processing). I should
probably remove the "QinQ" label to avoid this misunderstanding.

All of those protocol values can be used in any stacking as desired.


-David
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html