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Hi, I have a very basic doubt which has been confusing me.. i have a dell 2850 SuSELinux pc it has a Dell Broadcom BCM 5701 1000 Bast - T ...
  1. 10-24-2008 #1
    daedlus
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    Question related to Vlan support

    Hi,
    I have a very basic doubt which has been confusing me..
    i have a dell 2850 SuSELinux pc
    it has a Dell Broadcom BCM 5701 1000 Bast - T Network card.
    To cfg vlan on this do i need spl drivers for the card to be installed?
    When i do
    Code:
     rpm -qa | vlan
    i get this

    Code:
    vlan-1.8-23.1
    I have found that this package is implementation of 802.1q spec which is for vlan support
    so if i just configure the vlan by creating logical interfaces like this :


    Code:
    vconfig add eth0 6
ifconfig eth0.6 <ip> netmask <mask> up
...

    will my pc be vlan enabled?


    my basic doubt is that does this adding the vlan capability depend on the network card hardware or its drivers ??
    or is it sufficient to have the package installed - vlan-1.8-23.1
    and my pc becomes vlan aware?

    i am very much confused
    thanks very much
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  2. 10-27-2008 #2
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    any one ?
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