On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 07:00:14 -0400 "Kumara Sundaram" <sundarwaiting@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have a Linux box with 3 ethernet interfaces, eth0, eth1 and eth2. > Am planning to convert the box into a VLAN switch. Let eth1 and eth2 are > configured for VLAN 1 and 2 respectively. Let eth0 be a trunk carrying both > VLAN frames. Am going for the following configuration. > > $vconfig add eth1 1 > $vconfig add eth2 2 > $ > $vconfig add eth0 1 > $vconfig add eth0 2 > $ > $brctl addbr br1 > $brctl addif br1 eth0.1 > $brctl addif br1 eth1.1 > $ > $brctl addbr br2 > $brctl addif br2 eth0.2 > $brctl addif br2 eth1.2 > > The basic idea of the above configuration is based on the fact that each > VLAN can be simulated with individual bridges per VLAN. The above > configuration works fine as expected. > eth0 acts as trunk carrying frames with both VLAN IDs(1 and 2). This trunk > can be connected to a similar switch on the other end to span the VLAN > segmentation across switches. > > Now, I wish to make VLAN 1 a native VLAN for VLAN unaware systems connecting > to the switch. So, the trunk will carry both tagged frames as well as > untagged frames. how should I configure such a setup? Also, please give me > an idea of how to implement PVIDs? > > Thanks! What is full topology? That should work if there are no other connections between the vlan's. If you are using a switch that knows about vlan's it won't work because the switch will see a loop. Also, a switch may see their spanning tree packets loop around and drop the links!
