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Date:      Sat, 18 Dec 2004 03:16:27 -0500
From:      James <james@towardex.com>
To:        Mike Hunter <mhunter@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        Donatas <donatas@lrtc.net>
Subject:   Re: vlan double tagging
Message-ID:  <20041218081627.GA54494@scylla.towardex.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041217230349.GA15905@ack.Berkeley.EDU>
References:  <005801c4e42a$a1825890$9f90a8c0@donatas> <20041217223519.GB27607@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <20041217230349.GA15905@ack.Berkeley.EDU>

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On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 03:03:49PM -0800, Mike Hunter wrote:
> On Dec 17, "Brooks Davis" wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:22:02PM +0200, Donatas wrote:
> > > hello,
> > > i'd like to ask if there's any possibility to pass double tagged vlan packets through freebsd 5.x routers?
> > > and....how many level1 vlans are supported on one parent device?
> > 
> > I don't know what happens with double tagged vlan packets.
> 
> I think what he's asking about is whether FreeBSD prevents any of the
> nasty hacks that can be accomplished by double-tagging frames, or if there
> is something he can do with netgraph to prevent such badness.

/me thinks he's asking for q-in-q tunneling feature.

-J

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