Re: Newbiew question: Need some clarifications in 802.1q and bridging code interaction in linux

Thanks for all the clarifications.

Regards,
Pranjal


On 6/7/06, Ben Greear <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Peter Stuge wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 09:45:38AM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >
> >>>In Linux implememtation a bridge means a broadcast domain, so for
> >>>example  if I need to support all 4096 vlans then I need to create
> >>>4096 bridging entities and attach the specific subports like
> >>>eth01.2, eth01.3 etc to bridge for that vlan.
> >
> >
> > To clarify further, if you want to bridge all VLANs on eth0 with eth1
> > just add eth0 and eth1 to the bridge. But that will assume that all
> > VIDs are the same on both ports.
> >
> > If eth0.2 should be bridged with eth1.3 and so on, then you will need
> > one bridge per VLAN. Remember to set:
> > vconfig set_name_type DEV_PLUS_VID_NO_PAD
> >
> > ..if it isn't already set.
> >
> > ..and what happened to the vconfig set_bind_mode option that was
> > required for this? (Or did PER_DEVICE become the default, I seem to
> > recall this being the case?)
>
> VLAN always uses the BIND_PER_DEVICE behaviour now.
>
> Ben
>
> >
> >
> > //Peter
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