Ben Greear (greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote on 19 May 2006 08:54: >Megh Ranade wrote: >> I understand that the Linux 2.6 implementation supports the 802.1q standard. >> However, I am unable to 'see' support for the following - when I read the >> documentation & the 'man page' for the vconfig cmd: >> >> - PVID allocation for a port/interface >> - Dynamic vlans (GVRP) support >> - Protocol based vlan classification (802.1v (what today is (802.1q-3003 ) ) > >There may be tricks you can play with the bridging, firewalling and traffic >clasification logic to support this feature set. > >In particular, I believe that adding a bridge that includes a >regular ethernet port and one or more VLANs accomplishes the PVID >feature. Exactly. I'm using this right now. I have a single ethernet card, eth0. Packets routed to it go without tags so that they get the PVID in the switch. There are also 60+ vlans, eht0.1, eth0.2, etc. They all leave with tags.
