802.1q vlan tag (vconfig)

Xose Vazquez Perez xose at wanadoo.es
Sun Nov 16 13:07:25 UTC 2003


Tommy McNeely wrote:

> I was poking around with routers and switches, and I stumbled across a
> site that said that Linux supported VLAN Tagging (802.1q) in the kernel...
> I was really impressed when my new Fedora box (and RHEL btw) had the
> 8021q module and /sbin/vconfig .. however, I think there is a problem with
> it, if I ssh to a Solaris box and for example cat a large file, the
> connection hangs.. I can truss the shell process to see that its still
> functioning properly, but I see no output on the screen.. I end up having
> to "~." the connection... it also seems to affect vi sessions (which
> sucks). I don't know if this problem has something to do with my Solaris
> box (running alpha Solaris builds) the switch (WS-2948) or the trunking on
> linux.. if anyone has some free cycles, can you please try this out and
> let me know if you have similar problems?
> (then we can file a bug.... under the kernel module I guess?)

too much technical consultation for fedora-list, try it on
linux-net at vger.kernel.org || netdev at oss.sgi.com || vlan at wanfear.com

and take a look in -> http://www.candelatech.com/~greear/vlan.html
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