Re: HOWTO attach VLAN header to ethernet frame using Ebtables

Christophe Lohr <christophe.lohr-vHHsQtDGzY/[email protected]> Fri, 12 Oct 2007 13:08:17 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Santosh Dalavaipatnam a écrit :
> Hello Everyone,
>  
> I am trying to explore the possibe approaches of attaching an
> additional 4 byte VLAN header to normal ethernet frame.
>  
> Has anybody tried doing something like this using *Ebtables* utility?
> Can I use Ebtables to accomplish attaching additional header to all
> outgoing ethernet frames ?

Are you talking about 802.1Q?
See http://sourceforge.net/projects/bonding, the 8021q linux kernel module.

Are you looking about more complex vlan, eg. "double tag vlan" (stacked
vlan, or QinQ)?
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1ad)



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