VLAN switch with RouterBOARD?
Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 5:02 pm
Hi!
(repost since I accidentally posted this to wireless networking yesterday and that's not the right place to put it *laugh*)
I want to use a RouterBOARD 500, specifically the 534A, to make a small VLAN switch.
I understand to tag ethernet frames, you bridge between an untagged port and a tagged port, but then how do I bridge the tagged frames into another bridge? I think this is what I would need to do.
This is so I can have a bridged node in a network with the "through" port not caring about vlans (just passes them) and the "customer" port tagging frames into a specific vlan.
Here's the setup for each customer site RB534:
Ether1 = tag inbound frames with vlan401 and remove vlan401 tag for outbound frames
Ether2 + Ether3 = bridge
And a diagram of a simple network demonstrating my setup:
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!
-Rich
(repost since I accidentally posted this to wireless networking yesterday and that's not the right place to put it *laugh*)
I want to use a RouterBOARD 500, specifically the 534A, to make a small VLAN switch.
I understand to tag ethernet frames, you bridge between an untagged port and a tagged port, but then how do I bridge the tagged frames into another bridge? I think this is what I would need to do.
This is so I can have a bridged node in a network with the "through" port not caring about vlans (just passes them) and the "customer" port tagging frames into a specific vlan.
Here's the setup for each customer site RB534:
Ether1 = tag inbound frames with vlan401 and remove vlan401 tag for outbound frames
Ether2 + Ether3 = bridge
And a diagram of a simple network demonstrating my setup:
Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!
-Rich