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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
To: mark@themastandreas.com
Cc: netfilter@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: can ebtables be used to add/remove vlan tags
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 15:03:01 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <126fca97-0703-4c67-bbed-a8220f07b855@tahiti.vyatta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E7B61FA.7010403@dim.com>


> I created a vlan 0 interface using the vlan package and vconfig under
> linux . I'm just wanting to set the 8021p tags not segregate traffic.
> However I noticed that untagged traffic is is not being allowed thru
> the
> interface that I configured( in this case eth0.0). This seems like a
> bug
> in the VLAN module since VLAN 0 is a reserved id used to indicate
> priority tagged traffic so I would expect it to accept traffic tagged
> with VLAN 0 and untagged traffic.
> 
> In any case I'm trying to see if I can create a bridge with eth0.0
> interface associated with the bridge and then use ebtables to add a
> VLAN
> priority tag to an incoming untagged packet so the packet will get
> processed. I also want to strip off the VLAN 0 traffic with priority
> 0
> on outgoing traffic.
> 
> Based on my research this isn't possible and I would just like
> someone
> to confirm.

Actually vconfig is considered deprecated.
The best way to add/remove vlan's is with ip command.

ip link add link eth0 name eth0.1 type vlan id 1

I think you don't understand the behavior of the reserved vlan
tag 0.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-22 22:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-22 16:27 can ebtables be used to add/remove vlan tags Mark Mastandrea
2011-09-22 22:03 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-09-23  0:50   ` Mark Mastandrea

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