Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 22:11:56 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: oscars@mail.utexas.edu (Oscar Ricardo Silva) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VLAN support in FreeBSD Message-ID: <1pg0ptcdrbtsg5ornget1v618dlt5qonrn@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <SEN.999131734.622395324@news.sentex.net> References: <SEN.999131734.622395324@news.sentex.net>
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On 29 Aug 2001 20:35:34 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you 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 I have had good luck with it using the Intel cards. You want to use a fairly recent copy as no patches are necessary to use native long frames. I use the fxp cards against IBM, Compaq and Cisco switch and have had very good results in 802.1q trunking. Its quite easy to setup. Define how many vlan interfaces you want in your kernel compile and reboot. Then ifconfig vlan0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 vlan 123 vlandev fxp0 mtu 1500 up and you are done. ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) Sentex Communications Corp, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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