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Date:      Wed, 4 Oct 2006 12:45:46 +1300
From:      Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>
To:        Dunc <dunc@lemonia.org>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Layer2 VPN
Message-ID:  <20061003234546.GK21444@heff.fud.org.nz>
In-Reply-To: <4522F2FF.5060808@lemonia.org>
References:  <45223E43.6060906@lemonia.org> <20061003230147.GI21444@heff.fud.org.nz> <4522F2FF.5060808@lemonia.org>

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On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 12:32:15AM +0100, Dunc wrote:
> Andrew Thompson wrote:
> >On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:41:07AM +0100, Dunc wrote:
> >  
> >>Hi folks,
> >>
> >>I've been trying to create a layer2 VPN using FreeBSD boxes as the 
> >>gateways.
> >>
> >This should work fine with vlan headers, do you have any indication of
> >where the problem is? you may need to get packet dumps at the sending
> >and receiving ends.
> >
> I couldn't see why it wouldn't either. It's just an ethernet frame with 
> an extra field filled in AIUI
> 

It may be because our bridge does not yet differentiate between vlans in
its forwarding table, you can confirm this by clearing the learn flag on all
the interfaces (ifconfig bridge0 -learn xxx0). Its not a proper solution
of course.

Andrew



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