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How to make it work with VLAN-trunking?
Do I need to enable some vlan-interface on my OpenBSD machine for it to act as a client, with specific settings and stuff, or can I just activate 802.1q on the switch and assign different ports to different vlans, configuring the ip-addresses accordingly, and it'll just plain work?
If my onboard 100Mb NIC understands those tags at all that is...dont know how to check, its onboard on a Via Mini-ITX. EDIT: Or probably I can just set the switch to strip the tags before sending the frames out the port directly to the client.....right? They only do good if being send through another hub/switch where the tag needs to remain. That way the NIC wont have to care a bit about VLAN's, or even know they exist. Right? Last edited by Seb74; 26th June 2008 at 11:19 AM. |
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Yeah maybe its common for NIC's to support VLAN's, but I have one windows-machine at home that has no settings for VLAN's (which all other "windows-NIC's" do).
But as you said, and I already found out, its not very likely a NIC has to know anything about VLAN's just to belong to a VLAN, if I set the switch to strip the tags before sending them out that port. |
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If your connection on the switchport to your server is set to 'access' already then that 'access' functionality already strips the VLAN tag- hence why your box doesn't need to have knowledge of the particular VLAN of which it's connecting switchport belongs. However, having the switchport set to 'access' also means that only one VLAN (aside from perhaps the management VLAN- of which functionality varies from switch to switch) will be able to be assigned to your switchport.
If the switchport (and OBSD NIC) are set to 'trunk' then the OBSD NIC will have to be configured to talk to each VLAN that the connecting switchport is assigned to. Any VLANS that it is not specifically configured to talk to in this instance will not be available to communicate with.
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ps- you are posting networking questions all over the place. Perhaps it's better to place them in the new networking section outside of the OBSD section.
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