[plug] About setting up a private network between the PLUG servers

[Trent Lloyd]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 05:18:53PM +0800, Trent Lloyd wrote:

Oops, turns out im wrong
Seems you need a manged switch.
Bugger


> Heyas,
> 
> VLAN 802.11q trunking might work nicely
> 
> It works obviously on a manged swithc and i suspec titd work on a hub,... not sure about a normal switchj tho
> 
> Maybe someone else knows....
> 
> modprobe 8021q
> vconfig add eth0 39
> ifconfig eth0.39 <blah>
> 
> You also end up with some MTU issues tho because an extra 4 bytes is added to the packet
> the intel (eepro100) driver in linux doesnt support it but the intel open source 'e100' driver does
> I have no idea or any other network cards
> 
> vconfig is in ther vlan tools debian package
> 
> -- Trent
>