On Mon, 25 Jul 2005 14:23:24 -0700 Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Secondly you need to be able to make the switch fabric ignore any vlan tags on it's non-MII > > ports, but use the (outer) tag on its MII port. I'm pretty sure I can do this on the 88e9095 by > > re-configuring the DIX type (used to identify tagged frames on the non-MII ports) from 0x8100 to > > something reserved. However, I won't know that this will work for sure till I get the eval > > board. > > You may also have to hack on the VLAN code a bit...I'm not sure it completely supports > vlans in vlans, though it should be fairly straight-forward to add such support. > Hi Ben, You appear to be correct. I can ping from eth0.16 on machine1 to eth0.16 on machine2 but not from eth0.16.5 on machine1 to eth0.16.5 on machine 2 But I cannot see why this should be a problem. As I see it 8021q.o just adds a vlan tag to packets going down and strips the outer tag on packets going up. Please can you expand on this. Regards, Alex
