[Bridge] Bridging vlans

Bart De Schuymer bdschuym at pandora.be
Mon Mar 29 09:39:50 PST 2004


On Thursday 25 March 2004 01:23, Jeremy Jones wrote:
> So right now, there's no vlan trunking going on on the link my bridging
> firewall sits on, but I'm going to need to bridge two vlans, 4 and 51.  My
> question is this:  should the vlan interfaces on the linux firewall be
> created first, then bridged; or should the bridge interface be created,
> then vlans bound to that?

You'll need the first. The second method will only work if the packets are 
destined for the bridge itself.

cheers,
Bart




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