Re: Bridging untagged and tagged VLANs

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To do this seamlessly you need a VLAN aware bridge - the kernel has 
separate support for VLAN and bridging, but not integrated. I posted a 
patch a while back to fix this - see here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg01440.html

It was for a 2.4 kernel, but shouldn't take too much work to port to 2.6.

Simon


Michael Tremer wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> I got a weird problem but don't know if it is expected to work.
>
> brctl addbr br0
> vconfig add eth0 30
> brctl addif br0 eth0.30
>
> Until here, everythink works well... I can access the VLAN with id 30.
> But when I run the following:
>
> brctl addif br0 eth0
>
> Then, I can't access the VLAN any more but the untagged LAN.
> But instead of adding eth0:
>
> vconfig add eth0 40
> brctl addif br0 eth0.40
>
> It works.
>
> It would be nice if you can me give a short advice...
> Is it not possible to bridge an untagged LAN with a tagged VLAN or
> is this a bug?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Michael
>
> Kernel 2.6.29, brctl 1.4
>
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