From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Oct 2 10:58:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.palnet.com (mail.palnet.com [212.29.201.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E978814EF2 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 10:58:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjebara@palnet.com) Received: from localhost (rjebara@localhost) by mail.palnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA29683; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 19:57:22 +0200 (IST) Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 19:57:22 +0200 (IST) From: Rami Abu Jebara To: Tim Priebe Cc: Thierry Herbelot , "Jeffrey J. Libman" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: multi-port ethernet cards In-Reply-To: <99100114111702.05277@310.priebe.alt.na> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi This is very interesting .. can you please point me in the right direction ... Thanks in advance .. Cheers Rami **************************** Rami Abu Jebara Technical Director Palnet Communications Ltd e-mail : rjebara@palnet.com Tel: ++ 972 2 583 5666 Fax: ++ 972 2 583 6354 w w w . p a l n e t . c o m On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Tim Priebe wrote: > On Fri, 01 Oct 1999, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > Hello, > > > > what is this "VLAN feature" of FreeBSD ? (IP aliasing ?) > > > > TfH > > No, it is 802.1Q VLAN tagging. It is an extension to the Ethernet header, that > specifies which virtual LAN the packet belongs to. With a Switch that can > handel the 802.1Q standard, and is capable of enforcing that packets do not > cross to an other VLAN, you can effectively have multiple network cards on > multipule networks, with only one network card. > > The available documentation is quite sparse right now, but I have someone > preparing some web pages describing how to do it. It is actually quite simple, > if you want, I can send you a brief instruction, and a replacement for ifconfig > I was given. > > Tim. > > > Tim Priebe wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Jeffrey J. Libman wrote: > > > > i am configuring new servers to take the place of my old 486 (bsdi) boxes. > > > > the new boxes are pentiums, based on freeBSD stable (3.3 as of now). > > > > > > > > i have only so many pci slots available. can anybody point me to one or > > > > more models of multi-port ethernet cards (10baseT is fine) that will work > > > > under freeBSD? > > > > > > > > thanks in advance. > > > > > > > > cheers, > > > > jeff > > > > > > As speed does not seem to be an issue, if you have a Ethernet switch with vlan > > > support, you can try the vlan support in FreeBSD. Works great here, we have 10 > > > vlans running on 4 Ethernet cards. > > > > > > Tim. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message