O > > > > I'd appreciate any comments regarding how this should be done properly. > > From a brief glance at the code, I bet that a program opening a raw socket and passing > a pre-constructed VLAN packet to the VLAN device will cause double encapsulation, which > is not what I would want to happen. If we do not add the additional 4 byte header when > the VIDs are the same, I believe that would fix that problem. It would create a small > problem for your device in that the users could not use the VLANs that your > box uses internally. > Thanks for having a look Ben. I think I am missing something though. Why would a program ever want to pass a "pre-constructed VLAN packet" to the VLAN device. I assumed that the whole idea was to make vlan devices look like traditional ethernet devices to the rest of the kernel. Alex
