From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 25 17:29:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.uniserve.com (mail2.uniserve.com [204.244.156.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3871937B716 for ; Thu, 25 May 2000 17:29:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@uniserve.com) Received: from shell.uniserve.ca ([204.244.186.218]) by mail2.uniserve.com with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12v7zo-0004Mq-00; Thu, 25 May 2000 17:29:00 -0700 Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 17:28:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom X-Sender: tom@shell.uniserve.ca To: Victor Ponomarev Cc: Stable Subject: Re: Improvement of VLAN Support badly needed... In-Reply-To: <392D628F.32905FAF@unet.ru> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 May 2000, Victor Ponomarev wrote: > Hi All! > > Now VLAN support in stable is bad. > > Suppose you would like to really route two VLAN using a FreeBSD box as > router. > > > > host---vlan port---trunk port---vlan port---host > | > | > | > router > > Usually in that config router port configured as a trunk also, > this mean that it can received large packet. You shouldn't connect FreeBSD to trunk ports. Trunk ports should only be connected to some other switch's trunk ports. Trunk ports connect L2 switches together, not routers. Tom Uniserve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message