[SunHELP] Re: VLAN in SUN FastEthernet

[Ido Dubrawsky]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:29:55PM -0500, sunhelp-request at sunhelp.org wrote:
> From: "Saily Cedre" <saily at etecsa.net>
> Subject: [SunHELP] VLAN in SUN FastEthernet
> To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
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> Hi!
> 
> I4ve got an Ultra Sparc 10 and I want to know if my SUN FastEthernet support
> VLAN (IEEE 802.1q)
> 
> Thanks:
> Saily
> 

Saily,

  Typically VLAN tagging is done in ASICs on the network switches.  It is 
possibly through the use of libnet to handcraft 802.1q packets but as a whole
the FastEthernet chips on hosts do not support VLAN tagging.  It is left as
an function of the network infrastructure.

Ido
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