Peter Stuge wrote: > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 02:39:17PM -0500, cnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > ... > > I've tinkered with this a little and what I seem to find is that if > > my switch sends tagged frames to the Linux system, system services > > (arp, etc.) don't work. I'm guessing that they don't know what to > > do with tagged frames and that he frames aren't stripped. > > VLAN is implemented in the physical layer. It might help to think of > it as a virtual NIC driver. (Although it isn't implemented that way.) > VLAN interfaces are no different from other interfaces. But you have > to add the VLAN interfaces before Linux will function on the VLANs. > ... > > The problem I'm having is getting system services to ignore (or not > > see) tags. > > Perhaps we could help more if we knew what your goal was. Why do you > want to look at the VLAN tags? I'm trying to write a VLAN-aware IGMP router...more or less.
