Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:46:53 +1300 From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org> To: Jon Otterholm <jon.otterholm@ide.resurscentrum.se> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_bridge on a vlan-trunk Message-ID: <20071011194653.GB40950@heff.fud.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <470E7C97.3080804@ide.resurscentrum.se> References: <470E7C97.3080804@ide.resurscentrum.se>
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 09:42:15PM +0200, Jon Otterholm wrote: > Hi. > > Does anyone know if it is possible to put a transparent bridge on a > vlan-trunk? As from rev1.100 of if_bridge back in June it will correctly use the vlan number if the forwarding table so it is now possible to bridge a vlan trunk. Is this all you need? (7+ only, it wont be in 6-stable) > A working solution is to create a bridge for each vlan, but I would > prefer to have one bridge instead of several hundreds of them. > > Is this doable? > > In my lab environment I use a dual em(4) nic. > > What would the drawbacks be if I create ~1500 if_bridge and attached > each vlan-sub-if from each physical interface to their own bridge? Would > this work? > > //Jon > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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