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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 02:16:49 -0400 (EDT)
From: Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To: Oscar Ricardo Silva <oscars@mail.utexas.edu>
Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: VLAN support in FreeBSD
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802.1Q VLAN support is now standard.  It works natively with the nge, ti,
and tcp chipsets.  It works via software emulation with de, fxp, tl, tx,
and xl ethernet chipsets.  The only kernel hack you may need to do is
define BIG_PACKET for de chipsets.  It's all in the vlan manpage in
4.3-stable.

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=vlan&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+4.3-stable&format=html

You should checkout the manpage for a full set of caveats.

Joe Clarke


On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote:

> Is VLAN support now standard in recent versions of FreeBSD (4.x through
> 4.3-STABLE)?  I've been looking through mail archives and net documents and
> most mention patches to FreeBSD to make it support 802.1q VLANs (and many
> of those patches are NIC specific).
>
> We're currently running Linux with VLAN support but are running into
> hardware/software issues.  FreeBSD has shown itself to be stable and strong
> enough to support our current environment but when it came time to
> implement VLANs (months and months ago), nothing "stable" could be found,
> only experimental patches.
>
> Any information would be appreciated.
>
>
> Oscar
>
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