Re: VLAN help needed

[Gergo Szakal <bastyaelvtars@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:14:33 +0800
"Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@gmail.com> wrote:

Many thanks for your quick help again, Sephe.

> ifconfig iface0 up
> ifconfig vlan0 create
> ifconfig vlan0 vlan your_tag vlandev iface0
> # assign inet and netmask to vlan0
> 

Quite straightforward, but still asking: I have to do this on all my interfaces, right?
Oh, and if I do packetfiltering, I still have to do that on the physical interface, right?
Do I have to 'addm' the vlan interfaces to bridge0, or the physical interfaces?

> If vlan tag mismatches for vlan packets, these vlan packets will be
> dropped, but if you are not using hardware vlan tagging, you can grab
> the to-be-dropped vlan packets using tcpdump.
> 

OK, thanks. Will this method work with every kind of NIC (i. e. no hardware support is needed)?
Thanks a lot. I owe you a plethora of drinks now. :-)

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Gergo Szakal <bastyaelvtars@gmail.com>
University Of Szeged, HU
Faculty Of General Medicine

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