Hi Piccalo, I am afraid, there would be a local routing issue in your server. E.g., suppose you have two network interface cards in your machines, both belonging to the same subnet. The IP stack uses only one of them. That means, you need to have the vlan interfaces in separate subnets. regards jojan -----Original Message----- From: liam sharp [mailto:piccalo_clark@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 7:35 PM To: Linux 802.1Q VLAN Subject: RE: [VLAN] Linux bridge+vlan+tagging Hi Vishwas, Thanks very much for your reply. I've studied the document you refered to. The problem I have is more implementation specfic. If the gateway is going to see the traffic from all the Vlans, my understanding is it has to be plugged into a trunk port ? (A port that see's all the traffic, the ethernet frames encapsulated in their respective Vlan tags). I know how to use vconfig so I can see each vlan. But I want each vlan on the same network. It think what I want to do is remove the vlan tags before the traffic is passed up to the ip layer, and when response traffic is generated to encapsulate the ethernet frames back into vlan tags ? Does this sound appropriate ? Again, any input would be very much appreciated ! Piccalo --- Vishwas Manral <Vishwas@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Piccardo, > > To prevent a subnet for each VLAN, you can work as > per RFC3069. > www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3069.txt > > It uses a similar concept but does not talk about > conserving VLAN's as > such. Do let me know if you have any doubts? > > Thanks, > Vishwas > > -----Original Message----- > From: vlan-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:vlan-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of liam sharp > Sent: Friday, October 08, 2004 4:23 PM > To: vlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [VLAN] Linux bridge+vlan+tagging > > Hi, > > I just read this posting: > > [snip] > > Hi Peter, > > Sometimes we need a feature as requested. > > Check out > http://ietfreport.isoc.org/ids/draft-sanjib-private-vlan-02.txt > link. That is how it is implemented in a lot of > switches. > > Thanks, > Vishwas > > [/snip] > > I'm looking to achive the same thing as describe in > this document, and he's the 'but', - The switches I > am > using do no provide this Private Vlan functionality. > They do provide basic Vlan functionality though. > > My question is - I'm going to configure all ports in > my networks to be on different Vlans and plug my > gateway in to a trunk port to see all the traffic > from > each vlan. > > Does anyone have any experience of doing this ? > > I'm running a dhcp server and other process on the > private site of my gateway and don't want to > configure > a subnet for each vlan. > > I guest what I wanted to do is have the tags > stripped > of when data arrives, and some how reappended when > data is resent ? > > Any pointers much appreciated !!! > > Thanks > Piccalo > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Vlan mailing list > Vlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.lanforge.com/mailman/listinfo/vlan > ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Vlan mailing list Vlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.lanforge.com/mailman/listinfo/vlan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, forwarding, printing or copying of this email or any action taken upon this e-mail is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------