[CentOS] vlan support

Tue Mar 4 20:53:48 UTC 2008
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Is vlan 1 always native (untagged) or can you specify that?  I 
> remember having some problem with  Intel NICs on windows not liking 
> native packets at all if any were tagged but I don't know if that was 
> a hardware or software issue.
>


its my understanding that if you're using vlan tagging on a given link, 
ALL packets are supposed to be tagged, as the tag is a prefix on the 
ethernet header.   mixing tagged and untagged packets would be very messy.