Re: [opensuse] VLAN & SUSE

Joe Sloan wrote:
James Knott wrote:
Michael Mientus wrote:
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 6:48 AM, James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It made me wonder if it's possible to configure a NIC to be part of
a VLAN, instead of requiring a switch port to be configured for that VLAN.

I don't know much about VLANs. But you might find this article helpful.

VLANs on Linux
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7268

Mike
So, I guess it would require recompiling the kernel to add VLAN support.


Nah, the vendor kernels all include vlan support already.

Joe
I'll have to look into that sometime.


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