Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 17:51:01 +0200 From: Tim Priebe <tim@iafrica.com.na> To: James Wyatt <jwyatt@rwsystems.net> Cc: Frans ter Borg <frans@quanza.net>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VLAN's on quad-ethernetcard Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010525163521.00afa3e8@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10105250813280.75902-100000@bsdie.rwsystems. net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20010525131630.00afa2a8@localhost>
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At 08:17 AM 5/25/2001 -0500, James Wyatt wrote: >On Fri, 25 May 2001, Tim Priebe wrote: > > At 03:40 PM 5/24/2001 +0200, Frans ter Borg wrote: > > >hi, > > > > > >I'm in a situation where I'd like to deploy a FreeBSD box with a > > >quad-ethernetcard and use VLAN-tagging on one or more of the > > >ethernetports. I haven't bought the hardware yet. > > > > > >Did anybody get this to work yet ? If so, what hardware were you > > >using ? I'm kindof fond of the ZNYX346Q card, but haven't been able to > > >find anything about it running VLANs well in the archives. > > > > I found for my application a Gigabit Ethernet card was a better solution. > >It might be helpful to include why (pros and cons) so others can be helped >through your experience... Do you run all your VLANs through the GE card? >Maybe Frans has several segments that must be physically separate... - Jy@ This is all true, but I did not have enough time to send more than a short note. With one GE card you do not have to worry about how you distribute your vlans between the interfaces, in order to avoid congestion. You must have or make a GE port available, this will be impractical for some. I replaced 4 10/100 Ethernet interfaces all running multiple vlans with one GE interface. It sorted out my mtu problems, and I have not had an interface saturated since. If the requirement is for physically separate segments, then he would not consider it a solution for his application. Tim. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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