Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 19:58:24 +0000 (BST) From: Jasper Wallace <jasper@ivision.co.uk> To: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 802.1Q VLANs Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0002021957130.248-100000@avengers.ivision.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.10002020135210.28918-100000@jason.argos.org>
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Mike Nowlin wrote: > > What's the current status of 802.1Q VLAN support in -STABLE? I'm rapidly > heading towards an impass -- FreeBSD, or Cisco? :) I saw a few messages > about this about 4-6 weeks ago, and they kind of died after that -- last > mod date of /usr/src/sys/net/*vlan* is Dec. 27 on my test box..... > > If the decision is that FBSD is NOT "really ready" to support the 802.1Q > stuff now, I'll buy the $3K Cisco router (and associated cards & "Plus" > software packages), then start working on the support so I don't have to > buy the 2nd & 3rd routers in about three months... :) I could do the > routing with multiple NICs in the FBSD box, but with the way I have to > break apart this network, I'm going to run out of PCI slots pretty > quickly.... We are using the vlan patches from: http://www.euitt.upm.es/~pjlobo/fbsdvlan.html quite happily - they only work with fxp's tho, and don't do proper interface statistics reporting... -- Internet Vision Internet Consultancy Tel: 0171 589 4500 60 Albert Court & Web development Fax: 0171 589 4522 Prince Consort Road vision@ivision.co.uk London SW7 2BE http://www.ivision.co.uk/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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