On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:24:33AM -0500, cnelson@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > telnetd, sshd, inetd, etc. aren't VLAN-aware, are they? Am I right > that the way to make those things work on a VLAN is by creating > VLAN-specific interfaces (eth0.vid, etc.)? So, if I had interfaces > for VLAN 23 and 567 and frame tagged with VLAN ID 234 came in, it > would get dropped because there's no interface for it, right? But > if I had an application like Ethereal listening on a raw socket, > I'd see that message even though the intended application (say, > telnetd) would never see it. Yep, that's right. libpcap on the physical interface, set to promiscuous mode sees everything on the wire even if the networking stack ignores the packets. //Peter
