Re: no support for virtual interfases in openbsd bridging?

[Rigormortis Zalman <obsd@horrifying.net>]

thank you for your input.  is there currently a way to achieve similar
ends that i was hoping to accomplish with vlan bridging in openbsd?  if
specific implimentation of the required protocols to do more or less the
job of a bridge would be too lengthy, a brief list of the protocols
required and basic implimentation would be much appriciated.  a seperate
physical interfase for each virtual lan would be far less pretterable.  i
am not certain it would be possible when it finally gets implimeted into
the network

On 1 Jan 2001, Jason L. Wright wrote:

> 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
> 
>