Re: vlan Q in Q - [WAS Re: Using a switch fabric to emulate multiple NICs]
Cam <[email protected]>
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Alex > Ben Greear <[email protected]> wrote: [...] >>You may also have to hack on the VLAN code a bit...I'm not sure it completely supports >>vlans in vlans, though it should be fairly straight-forward to add such support. [...] > But I cannot see why this should be a problem. As I see it 8021q.o just adds a vlan tag to packets > going down and strips the outer tag on packets going up. Please can you expand on this. FWIW I tried this recently and found that packets only had the outermost tag, there wasn't the nesting behaviour I expected. I would be interested enough to try a patch, if one exists. -Cam -- [email protected] <--