Re: "not vlan" filter expression brokencatastrophically!

[Ani Sinha <ani () aristanetworks com>]

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:29 AM, David Laight <David.Laight () aculab com> wrote:
> > I agree. Honestly I think a perfectly reasonable stance to take is
> > requesting that the filters get packets *as seen on the wire/nic*. I
> > think that's the mental model everyone uses, and any deviation from
> > that model is prone to bugs in the kernel, libpcap, and for the enduser.
>
> TX and RX segmentation offload also confuse matters here.
> I think Linux can give libpcap large TCP fragments even when the
> hardware isn't doing segmentation offload.
> This also breaks the mental model.

It would be nice if someone can initiate a discussion/debate on netdev
on the points that we are raising here. I tried one time with vlan
issues and it met with lot of resistance.  May be another person will
have better success than me :-)
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