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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 10:24:57 +0200
From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr>
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Subject: Re: multi-port ethernet cards
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Hello,

what is this "VLAN feature" of FreeBSD ? (IP aliasing ?)

	TfH

Tim Priebe wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Jeffrey J. Libman wrote:
> > i am configuring new servers to take the place of my old 486 (bsdi) boxes.
> > the new boxes are pentiums, based on freeBSD stable (3.3 as of now).
> >
> > i have only so many pci slots available. can anybody point me to one or
> > more models of multi-port ethernet cards (10baseT is fine) that will work
> > under freeBSD?
> >
> > thanks in advance.
> >
> > cheers,
> > jeff
> 
> As speed does not seem to be an issue, if you have a Ethernet switch with vlan
> support, you can try the vlan support in FreeBSD. Works great here, we have 10
> vlans running on 4 Ethernet cards.
> 
> Tim.
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