Re: Header Reordering

At 08:16 PM 2/10/2007, you wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:37:04AM -0800, Hazelsnitzel wrote:
> > What does "header reordering" mean with regard to 802.1Q?
>
>In practice it means that VLAN interfaces behave 100% like
>physical interfaces.
>
>Specifically it makes SOCK_PACKET sockets on VLAN interfaces work.
>dhcpd is the common application that uses them.
>
>--8<-- http://www.candelatech.com/~greear/vlan.html
>Optional header-reordering, to make the VLAN interface look JUST LIKE
>an Ethernet interface. This fixes some problems with DHCPd and
>anything else that uses a SOCK_PACKET socket. Default setting is off,
>which works for every other protocol I know about, and is slightly
>faster.
>-->8--
>
>
>//Peter
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Thanks!