Re: [PATCH 2/2] [e1000 VLAN] Disable vlan hw accel whenpromiscuous mode

[David Miller]

From: Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:15:16 +0100

> I can say that sometimes you'd like to be aware that one of your
> VLANs is wrong and you'd simply like to sniff the wire to guess the
> correct tag. And on production, you simply cannot remove other
> VLANs, otherwise you disrupt the service.

If you were plugged into the wrong physical switch, how might
you debug that problem in production? :-)

Really, it's the same issue, just virtualized, as in the name
for the feature, VLAN.
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