Re: VLAN, Linux, and raw sockets

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On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 09:03:26PM -0500, Christopher Nelson wrote:
> Peter Stuge wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:39:17PM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> > > The problem I'm having is getting system services to ignore (or
> > > not see) tags.
> > 
> > Perhaps we could help more if we knew what your goal was. Why do
> > you want to look at the VLAN tags?
> 
> I'm trying to write a VLAN-aware IGMP router...more or less.

Ok, well, what is the problem? IIRC Linux already does IGMP routing.
Why are VLANs causing problems? Do you need to do some kind of
dynamic VLAN discovery, or am I simply way off track? :)


//Peter