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Date:      Fri, 23 Feb 2001 08:53:51 +0100
From:      "Peter Blok" <Peter.Blok@inter.NL.net>
To:        "'Mike Tancsa'" <mike@sentex.net>, <stable@freebsd.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: 802.1q vlans and STABLE
Message-ID:  <000001c09d6d$c3b3caf0$8a02a8c0@ntpc>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20010222215259.03d78d60@marble.sentex.net>

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I am working with VLANs and a BayStack 450-T without stability problems,
except when you configure NETGRAPH at the same time. The kernel crashes
during boot-up.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
[mailto:owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mike Tancsa
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 04:13
To: stable@freebsd.org
Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject: 802.1q vlans and STABLE


Hi,
are vlans and the fxp driver ready for prime time ? I have a situation
where I would like to deploy a simple network which looks like


[network vlan #1]-----[cat5500]-----[network vlan #2]
                          |
                          |
                          |
                    [freebsd fxp0]

The two remote networks would be trunked back to me using 802.1q encaps off
a cat 5500 switch.  I am using the patch at
http://www.euitt.upm.es/~pjlobo/fbsdvlan.html

to account for larger frame sizes. Whats not clear to me is that when
configuring fxp0, do I just assign it IPs via the vlan interface, or should
I also give fxp0 a normal IP.  Will it break things if fxp0 has an IP
associated with it ?

Also, does aliasing of vlan interfaces work as expected ?

if network #1 was 10.20.30.1/24 and 10.30.40.1/24 on vlan #123

and

network #2 was 172.16.1.1/24 and 192.168.1.1/24 on vlan #456

do I just do

ifconfig fxp0 up
ifconfig vlan0 inet 10.20.30.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 vlan 123 vlandev fxp0
mtu 1500
ifconfig vlan0 inet 10.30.40.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 alias


ifconfig vlan1 ....


Is there a limit as to the # of vlan interfaces ?  Also, do I have any
performance hits if I have too many vlans ?  If I recall correctly, in
LINUX, there used to be a performance hit if you had too many interfaces.


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Mike Tancsa,                          	          tel +1 519 651 3400
Network Administration,     			  mike@sentex.net
Sentex Communications                 		  www.sentex.net
Cambridge, Ontario Canada			  www.sentex.net/mike


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