IXGBE Stripping VLAN on Inbound Packets

[idata]

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The physical port is connected to an ethernet swicth set to TRUNK mode. I am running a utility that will set VLANs for packets according to the Virtual Machine sending the traffic.

All packets leave the server / nic properly 802.1Q tagged - however all inbound packets arrive to eth1 without 802.1Q tags ... they are being stripped by the driver.

This has been verified with a wireshark capture that clearly shows all packets on wire in both directions are properly 802.1Q tagged.

I know that the driver has SRIOV support can provide VLAN services ... but I don't want those VLAN services ... I just want the packets to be passed as is ... with tag or without tag to the OS.

Where are there instructions on the driver compilation or configuration to stop the VLAN stripping? Thanks.

John

[JOHN_R_Intel1]

This has been discussed on the netdev kernel mail list a number of times and not just about the Intel Ethernet drivers. It is fine for the drivers to strip the VLAN tags. If you want to see the tags in the packets you need to enable promiscuous mode in the driver. This is what something like Wireshark does to see everything in the actual packets.

Hope this helps.

[idata]

Patch the ixgbe driver:

File: ixgbe_main.c

Function: static int __devinit ixgbe_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,

const struct pci_device_id *ent)

Pacth:

# if 0

netdev->features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX | NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX | NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER;# else/* 10-05-2010: Bhal patched this to allow VLAN Tags available to wireshark */ netdev->features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM;# endif

Hope that helps!

Thanks,

Bhal