[j-nsp] VLAN tagging on fxp?

[Kristian Larsson]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 08:45:09AM +0200, Josef Buchsteiner wrote:
> 
> KL> But when it's possible to tag packets with FreeBSD
> KL> (afaik) and JunOS is built upon and JunOS can't
> KL> handle it there seems to be a restriction imposed
> KL> and that's what I'm after here.
> KL> When the support is there in FreeBSD it should
> KL> "come for free" on JunOS, but obviously it
> KL> doesn't. Why?
> KL> We could go through all the functions of any
> KL> router and question it's existance and use since
> KL> you could probably solve every problem with a
> KL> different solution. But more features give you
> KL> more options which is one of the reasons I go with
> KL> Juniper since they usually have it all. I can do
> KL> just about what I want. I wanna be able to tag my
> KL> mgmt vlan! :)
> 
> KL> Still; any @juniper.net folks have any comment on
> KL> this?
> 
> 
>     this reason comes from this
>     http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=28908
>     Let me check if we can fix this now too
> 
>     Josef
Ahh.

Reading the vlan man page it says (skipped some): 
"The rest of the Ethernet interfaces can run VLANs using software emula-
tion in the vlan driver.  However, most of them lack the capability of
transmitting and receiving oversized frames.
...
The interfaces that support oversized frames are as follows:
...
fxp(4)  supports long frames for vlan natively."

But I suppose that's wrong then ;)

It'd be grand if you could fix it somehow (don't forget
 backporting to FreeBSD and sending in a patch).
Please keep the list informed of any progress.

Regards,
Kristian

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> KL> Regards,
> KL> Kristian
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