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authorBrad Smith <brad@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-06-01 16:18:50 +0000
committerBrad Smith <brad@cvs.openbsd.org>2008-06-01 16:18:50 +0000
commit5ffc77f9703592edda7da769bf3bf4d8797c5351 (patch)
tree98e95eac73fc71536270b4e158ba3f848c7f4dcb /share/man
parente36e9b532a339d0c6ec3ad4de0ce9f8b080d240c (diff)
Remove further mentioning of HW VLAN stripping.
Diffstat (limited to 'share/man')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man4/vlan.413
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/vlan.4 b/share/man/man4/vlan.4
index 44306e6b9b7..16894e1bdcb 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/vlan.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/vlan.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: vlan.4,v 1.29 2007/05/31 19:19:53 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: vlan.4,v 1.30 2008/06/01 16:18:49 brad Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 2000 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
.\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
.\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: May 31 2007 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: June 1 2008 $
.Dt VLAN 4
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ the driver has instructed the chip to do so (such as
and
.Xr dc 4 ) ,
or the driver also takes advantage of a hardware tagging capability,
-and thus oversized frames are never actually sent or received by
+and thus oversized frames are never actually sent by
.Ox
(such as
.Xr txp 4
@@ -167,12 +167,11 @@ This driver only supports such operation with Ethernet devices.
.Pp
When the IFCAP_VLAN_HWTAGGING capability is set on the parent interface,
.Nm
-does not participate in the actual tagging or untagging of Ethernet frames.
-It simply passes the vlan ID on to the parent interface for tagging on transmit,
-and gets a vlan ID for each packet on receive.
+does not participate in the actual tagging of Ethernet frames.
+It simply passes the vlan ID on to the parent interface for tagging on transmit.
The vlan tagged packet is not actually visible to
.Ox .
Thus,
.Xr bpf 4
will show untagged packets on the parent interface, although frames
-are actually being transmitted and received with tags on the wire.
+are actually being transmitted with tags on the wire.