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From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
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Cc: Max Laier <max@love2party.net>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Bridges
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On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 05:22:38AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> 
> Since I've recently needed it, neither bridge.c nor if_bridge.c allow
> you to bridge VLAN trunks (you can bridge individual VLANs but that
> becomes unwieldly when you have dozens of VLANs).  I have code to do
> this in bridge.c.

Couldn't you bridge across the parent, or trunk, physical interfaces
carrying tagged VLAN traffic then?  (Of course, hardware support for
VLAN should be turned off on them in that case.)

-- 
Yar