Re: What needs to be done in ethernet driver for VLAN support

On 10/11/05, Alex Zeffertt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 05:46:42 +0100 (BST)
> Mahadev Cholachagudda <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm writing a network device driver for an ethernet
> > MAC with external PHY. My ethernet MAC supports the
> > 802.1Q standard.
> >
> > I would like to know what needs to be done in the
> > network driver level to support VLAN or 802.1Q.
> >
> > Also, please point me to some links that can give more
> > information on VLAN, how to setup in Linux
> > environment.
>
> The e100 driver in the kernel does vlan hwaccel.  You could look at
> that.

Do you mean e1000?  I don't think e100 supports VLAN accelleration.

Jason