[SunHELP] Re: VLAN in SUN FastEthernet

[Saily Cedre]

Hi!

I didn4t say that I4ve got a Cisco switch to connect some hosts and that
switch support VLAN.
My question is if I have to do something else in the SUN.

Saily.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ido Dubrawsky" <ido at dubrawsky.org>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Cc: <saily at etecsa.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2003 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: VLAN in SUN FastEthernet


> 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
> >
>
> 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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