From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 15 8:48:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from shumai.marcuscom.com (rdu57-28-046.nc.rr.com [66.57.28.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F77E37B40D for ; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 08:48:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (marcus@localhost) by shumai.marcuscom.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9FFmgB47850; Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:48:47 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shumai.marcuscom.com: marcus owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 11:48:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Clarke To: Veaceslav Revutchi Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 802.1q vlan trunking on fbsd In-Reply-To: <20011015101202.A65515@zeus.dnt.md> Message-ID: <20011015114522.O47601-100000@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Veaceslav Revutchi wrote: > hi > > I've seen on mail archives people making fxp interfaces undestand > 802.1q frames. I was wondering if it was possible to have the > FreeBSD box with two interfaces fxp0 and fxp1 forward 802.1q > frames from one interface to another, in other words trunk > a vlan received on fxp0 to fxp1, just like cisco's do it > on FastE interfaces. When you say "forward frame," are you referring to routing or bridging? If you wanted to route between VLAN interfaces, you can certainly do that. If you want to do something like this: -------- -------- |Switch| ---- FreeBSD ---- |Switch| -------- -------- With the FreeBSD box acting as another switch, I would recommend against it. The FreeBSD box is more like a router, and since it doesn't run spanning tree in bridging mode, it could be dangerous. Joe > > I will be using 4.4 and two i82559. Do I need bridging support > for that? > > any advice appreciated. > slava > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message