Why Linksys routers are so cheap...
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Tue Sep 22 23:35:37 EDT 2009
On 09/22/2009 09:27 PM, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
> I would much appreciate a report on its VLAN support, actually.
So, just looking at the menus:
you get to chose 802.1q or 'port-based' VLAN's. They seem to be
mutually exclusive. I chose 802.1q.
You can number and name VLAN's. The range is 1-4092, but I read only 64
simultaneous are available.
For each VLAN, each port can be one of the tristate: not participating,
untagged, tagged.
There's another tab called 'PVID (Port VLAN ID)'. You can type in a
VLAN # here for each port. I don't understand what this does that the
previous tagging doesn't. The help pages are syntactical, not
conceptual in nature.
There's an Address Table tab, which looks like you can tag a MAC to a
VLAN, optionally AND port id.
802.1x seems to be able to be configured to work with VLAN's. 802.1p
seems to be limited to port-based. VLAN support here would be nice.
-Bill
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