[vortex] vlan tagging support in 3c59x v0.99Y

Docume docume@lycos.es
Fri Mar 14 12:35:16 2003


I use this vlan patch: 
http://www.bewley.net/linux/vlan/patches/vlan-3c59x.patch

What are the differences between that patch and the Donald Becker driver?

Could I use Donald Becker driver into a production server?

On 5 Mar 2003, Tristen Rasmussen wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm having some trouble with getting vlan (802.1Q) support working with
> the version v0.99Y (3c59x.c:v0.99Y 12/16/2002 Donald Becker) of the
> 3c59x.c driver with a 2.4.20 kernel. 
> 
> I've got a cisco 1200 access point connected directly (via crossover
> cable) to a 3com 3c905B NIC. By tracing the cisco's output logs, I can
> see that it is indeed sending out a vlan id. However, I see no
> indication of the vlan id in the incoming packet as received by the NIC
> with the latest 3c59x driver 
> 
> Cisco output:
> 
> 01:19:28 +4768.437500  Packet Alert:  Enet Xmit:  00:0b:fd:ea:80:7f ->
> 00:10:5a:1b:c9:50
>     dot1dTpPort:  src=1  dest=1  priority=0  vlanID=5
>     DIX:          type IP  
>     IP:           IPv4 TCP  192.168.157.9 -> 192.168.150.210  ID=0x1184 totalLen=552  
>     TCP:          port [HTTP]80 -> 33779  seq=2036835655  ack=4126180638  dataOffset=5  flags=0x10  window=8192  urgentPointer=0
> 
> 
> 
> My ethereal trace for the NIC shows no indication of a VLAN id 
> 
> I loaded the compiled modules as follows:
> 
> insmod pci-scan
> insmod 3c59x
> 
> Is there anything else I need to do to enable the vlan support?
> 
> BTW, I also have the 8021Q module loaded in the kernel too 
> 
> Thanks,
> Tristen Rasmussen
> 
>