Re: [E1000-devel] BUG? strange behavior with vlans and virtual functions on i350

[Chris F. <chr...@ge...>]

On 11/13/2012 05:53 PM, Wyborny, Carolyn wrote:

>> From: Chris Friesen [mailto:chr...@ge...]

>> With the older kernel but the latest igb/igbvf drivers we're having
>> issues as follows:
>>
>> We can send vlan-tagged packets from a different system and they
>> are received in the VMs just fine.  However, if we try to send
>> vlan-tagged packets from one VF to the other it appears that the
>> hardware is stripping the VLAN tag information and not passing it
>> through to the other VF.

> Hello Chris,
>
> We are a bit resource constrained on this particular topic.  I will
> need to do some research and work on a repro in order to have some
> advice for you.
>
> Thanks for your patience,

No problem, I know it goes.  Any assistance you can provide would be 
appreciated.

Worst case I may end up patching the driver to disable hardware VLAN tag 
stripping.

Chris