i recently (late february) made some commits that among other
things enabled the native bridging in FreeBSD to work on vlans.
Both on -stable and -current.

        cheers
        luigi

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:44:19PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> Archie Cobbs wrote:
> > Terry Lambert writes:
> > > Bridging doesn't work with the vlanX interface currently in FreeBSD.
> > 
> > Why not?
> > 
> > I believe you, I've just never used vlans and always assumed
> > that they acted like normal Ethernet interfaces.
> 
> According to people in -questions on 18 Dec of last year, it's
> not possible.
> 
> I imagine it's because the vlan interfaces don't push their
> packets through ether_input, like real interfaces do.
> 
> Julian's approach would put the vlan's on ng_ether, which
> would push through the code that does the bridging.  Last
> December 20 on -net, he said the caode for a VLAN netgraph
> node was being donated by "this French committer" (sorry, I
> don't remember the exact words he used; I only scanned the
> posting in passing, 4 months ago, when VLAN's weren't
> important to me).
> 
> -- Terry
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