Re: no support for virtual interfases in openbsd bridging?

[jason@thought.net (Jason L. Wright)]

Rigormortis Zalman <obsd@horrifying.net> writes:

> i have 802.1Q vlan tagging enabled on virtual interfase vlan0 and wanted
> to use openbsd as a bridge inbetween 2 lans with vlan0 and xl0 and it
> likes xl0 just fine but i get this when i try to add vlan0 to bridge0
> 
bridging of vlan's is not currently supported, and I'm still trying
to figure out whether it will be.

> bash-2.04# brconfig bridge0 add vlan0
> brconfig: bridge0: vlan0: Invalid argument
> 
> it adds xl0 fine though.  looking at the kernel config i think it only
> supports 2 devices but vlan0 and xl0 are only 2.  am i doing something
> wrong or is there a known workarround?

No, the pseudo-device entry for bridge being 2 means you can have 2 bridges
that operate independently.  There is no upper limit on the number of
member interfaces per bridge.

--Jason Wright