Re: Bridges

From: Luigi Rizzo (rizzo_at_icir.org)
Date: 09/28/05

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    Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 03:29:33 -0700
    To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
    
    

    On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 02:21:53PM +0400, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
    > On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 05:22:38AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
    > >
    > > Since I've recently needed it, neither bridge.c nor if_bridge.c allow
    > > you to bridge VLAN trunks (you can bridge individual VLANs but that
    > > becomes unwieldly when you have dozens of VLANs). I have code to do
    > > this in bridge.c.
    >
    > Couldn't you bridge across the parent, or trunk, physical interfaces
    > carrying tagged VLAN traffic then? (Of course, hardware support for
    > VLAN should be turned off on them in that case.)

    yes in fact i was wondering what's wrong with that because
    we have been using bridge.c like this for ages now...

    cheers
    luigi

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