RE: hardware VLAN acceleration

From: Leech, Christopher (christopher.leech@intel.com)
Date: Thu Feb 28 2002 - 18:17:54 EST

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> The group is still valid, groups are never destroyed by the VLAN layer
> once they are created.

Unless the 802.1q code is built as a module. It looks to me like if you
unregistered the virtual interface and unload the 802.1q module, if another
tagged packet is received tg3 will still call vlan_hwaccel_rx and deref
tp->vlgrp which now points to who knows what.

Chris

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Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com>
Network Software Engineer
UNIX/Linux/Netware Development Group
LAN Access Division, Intel
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