Re: VLAN translation

Urs Thuermann <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vlan
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Krzysztof Adamski <[email protected]> writes:

> I need a device that will translate VLAN IDs. The simplest would be a two
> port switch that would take two 802.1q trunks had remap VLAN IDs between
> them. Can a linux box do this at L2 or is there a purpose build box that
> can do it? It needs to be max 1U in size.

vlan + bridging can do it, e.g.

        brctl addbr br0
        brctl addif br0 eth0.42
        brctl addif br0 eth1.666

will "connect" vlan 42 on eth0 with vlan 666 on eth1.


urs
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