From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 01:22:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 01:21:55 -0500 Received: from cx97923-a.phnx3.az.home.com ([24.1.197.194]:49820 "EHLO grok.yi.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 24 Dec 2001 01:21:47 -0500 Message-ID: <3C26C978.7030801@candelatech.com> Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 23:21:44 -0700 From: Ben Greear Organization: Candela Technologies User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel , "David S. Miller" Subject: [PATCH]: vlan config help Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This should make VLAN configuration slightly more clear... diff -u -r -N -X /home/greear/exclude.list linux/Documentation/Configure.help linux.dev/Documentation/Configure.help --- linux/Documentation/Configure.help Fri Dec 21 10:41:53 2001 +++ linux.dev/Documentation/Configure.help Fri Dec 21 20:47:52 2001 @@ -24237,6 +24237,16 @@ would like kernel messages to be formatted into GDB $O packets so that GDB prints them as program output, say 'Y'. +802.1Q VLAN Support +CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q + Select this and you will be able to create 802.1Q VLAN interfaces on your + ethernet interfaces. 802.1Q VLAN supports almost everything a regular + ethernet interface does, including firewalling, bridging, and of course + IP traffic. You will need the 'vconfig' tool from the VLAN project in + order to effectively use VLANs. See the VLAN web page for more + information: http://www.candelatech.com/~greear/vlan.html If unsure, + you can safely say 'N'. + # # A couple of things I keep forgetting: # capitalize: AppleTalk, Ethernet, DOS, DMA, FAT, FTP, Internet, -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear