Commit e612883c authored by Vadim Kochan's avatar Vadim Kochan Committed by Stephen Hemminger

man ip-link: Add more explanation about vlan reordering

Add more explanation about VLAN reordering and what it affects.
Signed-off-by: default avatarVadim Kochan <vadim4j@gmail.com>
parent 715296b8
......@@ -313,7 +313,31 @@ the following additional arguments are supported:
- specifies the VLAN Identifer to use. Note that numbers with a leading " 0 " or " 0x " are interpreted as octal or hexadeimal, respectively.
.BR reorder_hdr " { " on " | " off " } "
- specifies whether ethernet headers are reordered or not.
- specifies whether ethernet headers are reordered or not (default is
.BR on ")."
.in +4
If
.BR reorder_hdr " is " on
then VLAN header will be not inserted immediately but only before passing to the
physical device (if this device does not support VLAN offloading), the similar
on the RX direction - by default the packet will be untagged before being
received by VLAN device. Reordering allows to accelerate tagging on egress and
to hide VLAN header on ingress so the packet looks like regular Ethernet packet,
at the same time it might be confusing while the packet sniffing as the VLAN header
does not exist within the packet.
VLAN offloading can be checked by
.BR ethtool "(8):"
.in +4
.sp
.B ethtool -k
<phy_dev> |
.RB grep " tx-vlan-offload"
.sp
.in -4
where <phy_dev> is the physical device to which VLAN device is bound.
.in -4
.BR gvrp " { " on " | " off " } "
- specifies whether this VLAN should be registered using GARP VLAN Registration Protocol.
......@@ -1065,7 +1089,8 @@ IEEE 802.15.4 device wpan0.
.SH SEE ALSO
.br
.BR ip (8),
.BR ip-netns (8)
.BR ip-netns (8),
.BR ethtool (8)
.SH AUTHOR
Original Manpage by Michail Litvak <mci@owl.openwall.com>
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