Peter
I'm sorry for my sarcastic mail. I hadn't really noticed what was
tagged on to the mail. I'm forced to use Lotus notes and I haven't found
my way round it yet. Another reason why the lack of
indentation etc ....... exists.
Thanks for your comments. They explain the problems I was seeing coupled
with the hardware I am working on. The chip that I am writing the driver
for had a couple of things that was not clearly documented. The Linux box
was forwarding things to a default route that had no idea as to what was
happening and there were some other issues where the chip was stripping of
the VLAN tags.
Now just one more question. You mentioned in your last bit that the packet
without a VLAN tag would arrive at ethx interface on which the VLANs
ehtx.2 , ethx.3 etc were configured. Are you saying that if ethx itself
had a ip address configured for it and the packet was destined for that
address it would be accepted?
I was under the impression that one always had to do "ifconfig ethx
0.0.0.0"
Please let me know.
Thanks
S
Peter Stuge <stuge-vlan@xxxxxxx>
Sent by: vlan-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
02/01/2005 02:52 PM
Please respond to "Linux 802.1Q VLAN"
To: vlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx
cc:
Subject: Re: [VLAN] Vlan issues
I hope you accept my apologies, I really am sorry for pointing a
finger at you when it should have been pointed at jojan@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Secondly if an interface is configured for vlan tagging and a
> packet without a tag comes in, will it be dropped?
No, it arrives on ethx, the interface which you have added VLANs to.
If ethx has no address assigned, it just gets thrown away.
Hope this helps after all, and sorry again!
//Peter
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