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Date:      Wed, 28 Sep 2005 03:29:33 -0700
From:      Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
To:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
Cc:        Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Max Laier <max@love2party.net>
Subject:   Re: Bridges
Message-ID:  <20050928032933.G16027@xorpc.icir.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050928102153.GA86457@comp.chem.msu.su>; from yar@comp.chem.msu.su on Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 02:21:53PM %2B0400
References:  <200509241525.16173.max@love2party.net> <20050924192237.GP40237@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20050928102153.GA86457@comp.chem.msu.su>

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On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 02:21:53PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> 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.)

yes in fact i was wondering what's wrong with that because
we have been using bridge.c like this for ages now...

cheers
luigi

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> Yar
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