Re: Mixing tagged and untagged vlans using via-velocity driver

On Fri, 25 May 2007 09:37:09 +0200
"Nicklas Bondesson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am trying to setup two vlans (one tagged and one untagged) using the
> native via-velocity driver in kernel 2.6.21.1 on a single nic.
> 
> I can set it up tagged or untagged without any problems, but not both at the
> same time. Is this even possible with this driver?
> 
> To enable vlan5 tagging on the nic I have tried the following:
> 
> alias eth1 via_velocity
> options eth1 enable_tagging=1 VID_setting=5
> 
> At this point I can communicate with vlan5. When I try to bring up a virtual
> interface using vconfig it seems to inherit the vlan5 tagging, thus making
> it impossible to communicate with an untagged vlan.
> 
> I have also tried the other way arround. If I skip "enable_tagging=1
> VID_setting=5", I can communicate with a non tagged vlan. If I bring up a
> new virtual interface (tagged vlan5) using vconfig it does not work.
> 
> I'm stuck. If anyone could shed some light on this it would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 

The via-velocity is using a non-standard VLAN interface and ought
to be fixed...

-- 
Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>