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Date:      Thu, 25 May 2000 17:28:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        Victor Ponomarev <vick@unet.ru>
Cc:        Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Improvement of VLAN Support badly needed...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.10005251727080.16055-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <392D628F.32905FAF@unet.ru>

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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



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