Re: 802.1q Was (Re: Plans for 2.5 / 2.6 ???

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 03:34:27PM +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
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> 
> On Sat, 3 Jun 2000, Gleb Natapov wrote:
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> > I think that the perfect solution will be to remove tags from frames
> > _only_ if some process actually reads ethernet headers from this vlan
> > device. Any ideas how this can be implemented?
> 
> We could detect if there are any packet sockets (something similar to the
> fastroute obstacle detection)?

Just use dev->hard_header_parse (or a VLAN pseudo device equivalent) 
to do it on demand. 


-Andi

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