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=20 >4.3-STABLE)? I've been looking through mail archives and net documents = and=20 >most mention patches to FreeBSD to make it support 802.1q VLANs (and = many=20 >of those patches are NIC specific). > >We're currently running Linux with VLAN support but are running into=20 >hardware/software issues. FreeBSD has shown itself to be stable and = strong=20 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. =20 ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 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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