On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 01:12:06PM +0100, Alex Zeffertt wrote: > >>Another possible problem: what if you are trying to encapsulate vlan 7 inside > >>of vlan 7. How do you know to double-encapsulate? What if user-space is sending > >>a pre-built VLAN frame with a raw socket? I'm not sure there is enough info as to > >>the intent to encapsulate or not once the VLAN code receives the packet. > >I see how my proposal was wrong. Let me wild guess again :). I wondered if the following > >code could be better. The idea being that the code could determine the need for > >encapsulating or not from the interface's nesting level and the actual number of VLAN tags in the packet. > > > > I think we've had this conversation before. Search the list archives for "vlan Q in Q" Thanks for the pointer. Do you know why your patch didn't get merged into mainline? Thanks, Frederik
