On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Ben Scott<dragonh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Greg Rundlett > (freephile)<g...@freephile.com> wrote: >> Vlan tagging separates the traffic. >> How do I configure my notebook to be on both networks? > > You need to tell the OS that you want it to recognize VLAN tags on > the interfaces. You'll then get multiple interfaces of the form > "foo0.1", where 0 is the physical interface number and 1 is the VLAN > ID. You can also still use "foo0" for untagged frames, if that's how > the network is configured. > > Note that is a dot (.) not a colon (:). (Colons are used for > interface aliases, which is a way to do multiple IP addresses on one > physical interface, while maintaining the illusion of multiple > interfaces for programs which can't handle multiple IPs on a single > logical interface. (You can do the same thing easier with multiple > "ip addr add dev foo0" invocations, but some software assumes > "interface == address".)) > > The manual way to configure a VLAN interface is with the vconfig(8) > command. For example: > > vconfig add eth0 42 > > will create the "eth0.42" VLAN interface. > > I don't know the way to configure VLANs with Debian/Ubuntu config automation. > > For Red Hat, you can create an "ifcfg-foo0.1" interface description > file, add "VLAN=yes", specify "DEVICE=foo0.1", and the rest happens > automagically. > > -- Ben
Thanks Ben, I'm reading more on VLANs [1] and now have at least installed vconfig and enabled the 8021q kernel module [2] :-) This article [3] looks like what I'm after, so I'll have to study, and test [1] http://oldwiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs(2f)NetworkInterfaces.html [2] sudo sh -c 'grep -q 8021q /etc/modules || echo 8021q >> /etc/modules' [3] http://www.go2linux.org/vlan-with-debian _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
