Outer VLAN Classification

Napatech Link-Capture™ Software Features

Platform
Napatech SmartNIC
Content Type
Feature Description
Capture Software Version
Link™ Capture Software 12.16

VLAN frames

The frame decoder recognizes an outer VLAN-tagged frame if the TPID (tag protocol identifier) is 0x8100, 0x88A8 or equal to an alternative TPID determined by the AltTPID parameter in the ntservice.ini file (see ntservice.ini file in DN-0449).

A maximum of 3 VLANs are supported.

Note: VLAN tags are only recognized if they appear right after the layer 2 source MAC address or a VN-Tag.

VLAN length

The length of the VLAN field depends on the number of VLANs. The possible values are 0, 4, 8 and 12 bytes.