RE: Mixing tagged and untagged vlans using via-velocity driver

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> The soft version is the version in the kernel which inserts 
> and removes tags. The hardware "accelerated" version is the 
> version that uses the hardware features of the card.
> If the driver was correctly written, vconfig would have 
> automagically worked and used the hardware accelerated version.
> Vconfig configures the kernel, and the kernel chooses which version.
> The normal behaviour is using the sofware version unless the 
> driver supports the harware variant, but somehow the driver 
> probably puts the nic in a always-remove-tag mode, hence none 
> of the versions work.
> 


Thanks for your reply. I got it working now, had to switch to another nic.
The via card simply didn't work with the native driver in the kernel. I had
success with the 3c905C-TX and Intel 82546GB card (built-in hw VLAN
support).

Nicklas


 

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