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    On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:10:52PM -0500, jamal wrote:
    > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Matti Aarnio wrote:
    > > Read what I wrote about the issue to Alan.
    > > Ben's code has no problems with receiving VLANs with network
    > > cards which have "hardware support" for VLANs.
    >
    > OK. I suppose an skb->vlan_tag is passed to the driver and it will know
    > what to do with it (pass it on a descriptor etc).

    Sure, nice. WHY SHOULD THERE BE MORE LAYER-2 STUFF ADDED TO
    SKB OBJECTS ?

    One of important abstraction issues is to isolate device specific
    new things (like what VLAN/PVC/SVC is used at your favourtite
    802.1Q/ATM/X.25/FrameRelay connection).

    The less we leak that kind of things to SKB, the better, IMO.
    They are net_device issues, after all.

    Tell me (if you can), why packet sender calls hardware-header
    generation for packet, if the card can insert it for you ?
    Consider the structure of Ethernet MAC header, where is source
    address ? Where is the destination address ? If you write the
    destination, why should you not write the source there too ?

    No doubt some cards can fill in the source address while doing
    frame transmit, but is it worth the hazzle ?

    > cheers,
    > jamal

    /Matti Aarnio
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