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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?
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Jeremy
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