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authoryar <yar@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-27 10:30:11 +0000
committeryar <yar@FreeBSD.org>2004-07-27 10:30:11 +0000
commit141b1c850b2b510c94e800084f6aec1e0ebbf8ea (patch)
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New release notes:
fxp(4) allows toggling its VLAN_MTU capability; ifconfig(8) provides controls for VLAN_MTU and VLAN_HWTAGGING.
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml17
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diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index 49c4eb3..487cdd7 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -471,6 +471,12 @@
<varname>dev.fxp0</varname>, and those sysctls can be set
on a per-device basis.</para>
+ <para>&man.fxp.4; now provides actual control over its capability
+ to receive extended Ethernet frames, <literal>VLAN_MTU</literal>.
+ It can be toggled from the userland with the aid of the options
+ <option>vlanmtu</option> and <option>-vlanmtu</option>
+ to &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
+
<para>The &man.ixgb.4; driver, which supports
Intel PRO/10GBE 10 gigabit Ethernet cards, has been
added. &merged;</para>
@@ -873,6 +879,17 @@
<para>&man.ifconfig.8; now prints the &man.polling.4; status
on the interface. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.ifconfig.8; now provides options,
+ <option>vlanmtu</option> and <option>-vlanmtu</option>,
+ allowing to control the capability of some Ethernet interfaces
+ to receive extended frames (i.e. frames containing more than
+ 1500 bytes of payload).</para>
+
+ <para>&man.ifconfig.8; now provides options,
+ <option>vlanhwtag</option> and <option>-vlanhwtag</option>,
+ allowing to control the capability of some Ethernet interfaces
+ to process VLAN tags in the hardware.</para>
+
<para>&man.ip6fw.8; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to
stop it from making any changes to the rules in the kernel</para>
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index 49c4eb3..487cdd7 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -471,6 +471,12 @@
<varname>dev.fxp0</varname>, and those sysctls can be set
on a per-device basis.</para>
+ <para>&man.fxp.4; now provides actual control over its capability
+ to receive extended Ethernet frames, <literal>VLAN_MTU</literal>.
+ It can be toggled from the userland with the aid of the options
+ <option>vlanmtu</option> and <option>-vlanmtu</option>
+ to &man.ifconfig.8;.</para>
+
<para>The &man.ixgb.4; driver, which supports
Intel PRO/10GBE 10 gigabit Ethernet cards, has been
added. &merged;</para>
@@ -873,6 +879,17 @@
<para>&man.ifconfig.8; now prints the &man.polling.4; status
on the interface. &merged;</para>
+ <para>&man.ifconfig.8; now provides options,
+ <option>vlanmtu</option> and <option>-vlanmtu</option>,
+ allowing to control the capability of some Ethernet interfaces
+ to receive extended frames (i.e. frames containing more than
+ 1500 bytes of payload).</para>
+
+ <para>&man.ifconfig.8; now provides options,
+ <option>vlanhwtag</option> and <option>-vlanhwtag</option>,
+ allowing to control the capability of some Ethernet interfaces
+ to process VLAN tags in the hardware.</para>
+
<para>&man.ip6fw.8; now supports a <option>-n</option> flag to
stop it from making any changes to the rules in the kernel</para>
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