Re: disable tag stripping on Intel

Ben Greear <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vlan
Organization Candela Technologies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Peter Stuge wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 08:59:08AM -0500, Joe Cooley wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I'd like to disable 802.1q tag stripping on my linux 2.6 box so that
>>I can see the tagged packets on the physical device, e.g. eth0,
>>while seeing the stripped version on the vlan device, e.g. eth0.10.
>>I first tested to see if this behavior was present.  Unfortunately,
>>it was not.
> 
> 
> Not even when you put eth0 into promiscuous mode?
> 
> If not, you'll probably have to do something to the driver.
> 
> Also, to get the most reliable results, I suggest that you have a
> separate system monitor the trunk.

I think it's a simple edit to the driver file to change a #define
and then re-compile.  It's possible that ethtool has a way to change
it real-time as well...

Ben

> 
> 
> //Peter
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