Re: Two VLANs with same IP

Ben Greear <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vlan
Organization Candela Technologies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Rui Cristo wrote:
> I have a problem to solve that is to create two VLANs, like vlan10 and 
> vlan20, and make them have the SAME IP address and I want to create 
> sockets for each.
> How can I bind the sockets to each VLAN instead of binding them to its 
> IP? If I bind with it's IP I can't control wich VLAN to choose.

That sounds like a horrible thing to do!  You could try the SO_BINDTODEVICE
sockopt, but not sure if it will do what you want.  Perhaps adding the two
VLANs to a bridge and setting the IP on the bridge would be more appropriate?

Ben

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