Re: Two VLANs with same IP

Ben Greear <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vlan
Organization Candela Technologies
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ard van Breemen wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:06:49AM -0300, 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.
> 
> 
> IP binding is done on a system level. So it really doesn't matter
> if your IP is on lo or vlan*...

You can actually tweak this by using policy-based routing and binding
to local IP and/or devices with sock-opts, and messing with the
/proc/sys/net/arp filter logic..but it takes a bit of work.

Ben

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