Re: Log VLANs without interfaces.

Oscar N <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:11:28 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.network.bridge.ebtables.user
Message-ID <848662e82c3ef7fb0184429ba8843cd5@localhost>
Hi!

We did this a couple of years ago due to shitty switches that didn't even
had the possibility to filter out packets from rouge DHCP servers.
What we did was using a central database and scripts on the linux boxes
instead that handled all the hard work of setting up/removing interfaces.
Worked very well and we also incorporated multiple routing tables and per
user packet shaping. Maybe that would be another approach to solve the
problem.

/Regards Oscar

On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:47:31 +0000, Asher Awelan <[email protected]>
wrote:
> SCENARIO:
> I have inherited a hospitality solution which uses 802.11q tagging on
it's
> switched network for the purpose of room identification, i.e. one port
per
> room.
> My current handling of this is working but not stable and is memory
heavy.
> Currently I have the 250 (I know!) VLANs on eth1.x as interfaces and
have
> bridged them on br0.
> I am using ebtables to log which mac addresses are using which vlan tag
> and then doing some cron processing to charge data use to the rooms.
> However, this is pretty intensive on the network/ifconfig management.
> 
> QUESTION:
> Is there a way to broute the vlans to the eth1 interface and not have to
> create every interface and register every vlan... or perhaps strip the
vlan
> id (after logging of course)...
> 
> Further clarification can be given of course.
> I know this is a ridiculous scenario, however these are my parameters
> within which to work.
> 
> Thank you kindly,
>
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