Wireshark-users: [Wireshark-users] HP/Qlogic 10G NIC (Windows): driver config to preserve VLAN ta

Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 11:26:04 +0000 (GMT)
Hi all

I know this might not be strictly Wireshark-related, possibly some 
of you also came across this issue and 
might be able to help - else
just tell me to go bark up another tree...  :-)

We're trying to capture traffic from a 
SPAN session on a Cisco 
Nexus 5020.

- SPAN source (rx only) is a 4x10G Port Channel, with very little traffic.
- SPAN 
destination is a 1x 10G port, configured as 802.1q trunk,
(so that it does not strip the VLAN tags away)

The NIC is a 
HP NC522SFP (dual 10G, PCI-E 8x) in a HP DL585-something 
(2x 6-core Opteron, 32GB RAM) running Windows Server 2008 
64bit and 
the latest NIC driver available from HP (not sure about the NIC's firmware, 
though; as I understood, 
Windows drivers are soft-overlaying latest firmware 
anyway). It seems that this is an HP OEM product by Qlogic 
running 
their nx3 Chipset.

Wireshark 1.4.0 however does get to see the VLAN tags. We've been trying 
to enable and 
disable "VLAN/Priority support" on the NIC, but there seems 
to be no change: Tags are not visible to Wireshark.

We 
found  http://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/VLAN#Special_flag_settings,
but the hints there don't seem applicable to 
this HP/Qlogic NIC. 

Would anyone happen to know the right conflig flag in registry or driver GUIs 
to make that NIC 
preserve the VLAN tags before handig the frame over to libpcap?

best regards & thanks a lot 

Marc