Re: Double stacked VLANs (was Re: Question on header check)

Alex Zeffertt <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:15:59 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.drivers.vlan
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> 
> But, it would be equally valid to send a frame with the vlan-7 header
> already in it to eth0.7, so that must continue to work (without
> re-encapsulating it into eth0.7.7)
> 

This is the bit which confuses me.  Why would anyone want to do this?
Why wouldn't they instead just sent the frame to a raw socket on eth0?


Alex