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List:       linux-vlan
Subject:    Re: [VLAN] Allied Telesyn Gigabit NICs and VLAN support in Linux
From:       Ben Greear <greearb () candelatech ! com>
Date:       2003-12-11 20:09:25
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Velimir Kalik wrote:

> Yes, I looked at the menuconfig before posting the first letter, but there
> were no AT NICs on the list. BTW, I heard that Intel's E1000 Gigabit NIC is
> the best so far, but I dunno if it supports VLANs. Anyway, I looked at the

e1000 works great.

> AT2930T supports 64 VLANs and L2 4 level priorities and it will be used in a
> P4 Linux (Slackware) server that will be connected with a cat6 UTP cable to
> a Cisco3550 router that already has VLANs defined. Since its a server I
> guess I'll go for the hardware version of the VLANs and I respect the Ben's
> VLAN kernel support and the effort everyone put into it but I guess I won't
> need to turn it on this time.

Unless they completely re-implemented VLAN support for their NIC, then hardware
support just means that the kernel VLAN code will use the hardware-accelleration
hooks.  You'll still use 'vconfig', etc.

Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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