[SunHELP] Re: VLAN in SUN FastEthernet

[Dave Bartlett]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:16:16AM -0400, Ido Dubrawsky wrote:
-> 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>
-> > Message-ID: <004001c34b27$40e0d4f0$458037c8 at saily1>
-> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
-> > 
-> > Hi!
-> > 
-> > I4ve got an Ultra Sparc 10 and I want to know if my SUN FastEthernet support
-> > VLAN (IEEE 802.1q)
-> > 
-> > Thanks:
-> > 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.

You can purchase a GigE card which does support VLANs.

 - dlb

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