[VLAN] configuring VLAN in Linux 2.4.25

[Alex Zeffertt]

Hi Arthur,

The message means that the vlan module has been inserted into your kernel.
This has no effect until the vconfig tool is used to create vlan devices.

See "man vconfig" for how this works.

But before you start manually creating vlan devices its worth checking if
you have a distro that will do it all for you.

For example in redhat/fedora you can edit
"/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.10" in the same way you edit
"/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0".  The ifup/ifdown scripts will
parse the filename, and infer from it that they need to use vconfig to create/delete
a vlan device which sends vlan frames with VID 10 over eth0.

In debian/ubuntu you just install the "vlan" package with "apt-get install vlan".
Then you can create stanzas in "/etc/network/interfaces" for eth0.10 in exactly
the same way you create stanzas for eth0.  The "/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/vlan"
and "/etc/network/if-post-down.d/vlan" scripts parse the device name and figure out
what they need to do.

Easy!

Alex



Arthur Khachatryan wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> I am newbie. Could somebody help me please how to configure the VLAN in 
> Linux 2.4.25 kernel. I see the message "802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben 
> Greear <greearb at candelatech.com <mailto:greearb at candelatech.com>>" while 
> linux is downloading. Then I see the following by typing cat for the VLAN:
>  
> ~ # cat proc/net/vlan/config
> vlan_proc_get_vlan_info: cnt == 25
> VLAN Dev name    | VLAN ID
> Name-Type: VLAN_NAME_TYPE_RAW_PLUS_VID_NO_PAD
> vlan_proc_get_vlan_info: cnt == 25
> ~ #       
>  
> So I need to setup the VLAN for my downloaded Linux. I don't know how to do.
> Help me please by email. It would be highly appreciated.
> Thank you in advance.
>  
> Sincerely,
> Arthur.
> 
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