Re: [VLAN] VLAN patches

[Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave Santucci wrote:
> Bjorn
>         Since the data type for the vlan_id is specified as an "unsigned short",
>         The comparison (vlan_id < 0) will always be false due to the range of 
> the data
>         type.
>
>         -ds
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andersson Björn [mailto:Bjorn.Andersson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 1:24 AM
> To: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [VLAN] VLAN patches
>
> Hi,
> I hope you are the right receiver of 8021q-patches.
> We are running SuSe 8.0, i.e kernel 2.4.18.
>
> - When addding several egress-mappings we get stuck in an eternal
> loop if they end up in the same hash-bucket, see vlan_dev.c.path.
>
> - If we try to remove a vlan with VID 0, ifconfig stops working
> completly.
> We fixed it with vlan.c.patch.

Is there any reason to ever let someone add a VLAN of ID 0 in the first 
place?

Ben

>


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