Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 13:47:34 +0300 From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> To: Tim Price <tim@thepacific.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 802.1QinQ Support Message-ID: <20051212104734.GG37414@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20051211214645.06ACB43D62@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20051211214645.06ACB43D62@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 10:42:31AM +1300, Tim Price wrote: T> Is there any support, either inbuilt or third party, that anyone knows of T> for 802.1QinQ, VLAN Stacking, Inner VLAN (it's called a lot of things by a T> lot of companies)? T> T> The reason I ask is that we provide layer 2 transit over our wireless T> network using a freebsd 5.4 / 6 appliance. Recently we have been approached T> by a group that wants to use VLANS for QOS using their own routers but T> unless we encapsulate their traffic in our own VLANs we will eventually run T> into an issue with VLAN conflicts between this group and another potential T> VLAN user. Any input that the FreeBSD community has to offer on this issue, T> or other solutions that we may not have thought about would be greatly T> appreciated. You can nest us much 802.1q VLANs as you want using ng_vlan(4). -- Totus tuus, Glebius. GLEBIUS-RIPN GLEB-RIPE
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