From owner-freebsd-net Wed Feb 2 11:59:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from stingray.ivision.co.uk (avengers.ivision.co.uk [195.50.91.40]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3177B40F3 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 11:59:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from stingray.ivision.co.uk ([195.50.91.40]) by stingray.ivision.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.04 #1) id 12G5uy-0003xh-00; Wed, 2 Feb 2000 19:58:24 +0000 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 19:58:24 +0000 (BST) From: Jasper Wallace To: Mike Nowlin Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 802.1Q VLANs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: X-NCC-RegID: uk.instant-web MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Mike Nowlin wrote: > > What's the current status of 802.1Q VLAN support in -STABLE? I'm rapidly > heading towards an impass -- FreeBSD, or Cisco? :) I saw a few messages > about this about 4-6 weeks ago, and they kind of died after that -- last > mod date of /usr/src/sys/net/*vlan* is Dec. 27 on my test box..... > > If the decision is that FBSD is NOT "really ready" to support the 802.1Q > stuff now, I'll buy the $3K Cisco router (and associated cards & "Plus" > software packages), then start working on the support so I don't have to > buy the 2nd & 3rd routers in about three months... :) I could do the > routing with multiple NICs in the FBSD box, but with the way I have to > break apart this network, I'm going to run out of PCI slots pretty > quickly.... We are using the vlan patches from: http://www.euitt.upm.es/~pjlobo/fbsdvlan.html quite happily - they only work with fxp's tho, and don't do proper interface statistics reporting... -- Internet Vision Internet Consultancy Tel: 0171 589 4500 60 Albert Court & Web development Fax: 0171 589 4522 Prince Consort Road vision@ivision.co.uk London SW7 2BE http://www.ivision.co.uk/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message