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Message-ID: <55DDDAF4.30904@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 26 Aug 2015 16:27:48 +0100
From:	Jeremy Harris <jgh@...hat.com>
To:	Vadim Kochan <vadim4j@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] man ip-link: Add more explanation about vlan reordering

On 17/08/15 20:22, Vadim Kochan wrote:
> +.BR reorder_hdr " is " on
> +then VLAN header will be not inserted immediately but only before passing to the
> +physical device (if this device does not support VLAN offloading), the similar
> +on the RX direction - by default the packet will be untagged before being
> +received by VLAN device. Reordering allows to accelerate tagging on egress and
> +to hide VLAN header on ingress so the packet looks like regular Ethernet packet,
> +at the same time it might be confusing while the packet sniffing as the VLAN header
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Does not read well.  "for packet capture" perhaps?
-- 
Jeremy


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