Alex Zeffertt wrote: > I see your point about leaving the vlan tag in the name but I don't think it is valid in this > particular scenario. Although each frame sent to the CPU over the MII has a tag, the frame does not > have a tag when it enters the switch via one of the other ports. Similarly, when the CPU sends a > frame over the MII it is tagged, but the switch removes the tag before sending it out. Therefore > the tags are used solely on the MII bus as a way of indicating on which port the frame was > received/to which port it should be sent. This is an implementation detail that I want to hide and > make it look like I've just got 10 NICs. So what happens when the user configures a VLAN on this 'ethernet' port? Ben -- Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
