From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Henrik Nordstrom Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 22:13:52 +0000 Subject: Re: [LARTC] VLAN patch Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: lartc@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday 19 December 2001 22.33, Ryan wrote: > I understand the use of VLANs on a switch, but is it only useful in Linux > when your Linux computer is configured as a bridge? What makes such a combination interesting is the added features Linux can=20 provide, such as filtering or shaping. A VLAN enabled bridge alone does not make that much sense as VLANs is usual= ly=20 used in conjunction with switches, and switches are essentially fast bridge= s=20 with many ports.. Regards Henrik Nordstr=F6m MARA Systems AB, Sweden _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://ds9a.nl/lartc/