Re: can ebtables be used to add/remove vlan tags

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> I created a vlan 0 interface using the vlan package and vconfig under
> linux . I'm just wanting to set the 8021p tags not segregate traffic.
> However I noticed that untagged traffic is is not being allowed thru
> the
> interface that I configured( in this case eth0.0). This seems like a
> bug
> in the VLAN module since VLAN 0 is a reserved id used to indicate
> priority tagged traffic so I would expect it to accept traffic tagged
> with VLAN 0 and untagged traffic.
> 
> In any case I'm trying to see if I can create a bridge with eth0.0
> interface associated with the bridge and then use ebtables to add a
> VLAN
> priority tag to an incoming untagged packet so the packet will get
> processed. I also want to strip off the VLAN 0 traffic with priority
> 0
> on outgoing traffic.
> 
> Based on my research this isn't possible and I would just like
> someone
> to confirm.

Actually vconfig is considered deprecated.
The best way to add/remove vlan's is with ip command.

ip link add link eth0 name eth0.1 type vlan id 1

I think you don't understand the behavior of the reserved vlan
tag 0.
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