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Old 12-05-2006, 05:23 PM   #1
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Simple Switch question


Anybody know how to create a switch with vlan capability using a linux server? There are tons of tutorials online about how to create a router from linux, but nothing on how to create a switch. the reasoning behind this is that I want to create a 20 port switch (assuming I will have 20 NIC's..don't ask me how...) but I don't need routing capability, just vlan capability. How can I do this?

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Old 12-05-2006, 05:39 PM   #2
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Quick search of google showed these.
http://freshmeat.net/projects/vlan/
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7268
http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/VLAN
http://docs.pld-linux.org/vlan-software.html

As for 20 ports you can use 4 or 8 port pci ethernet cards. Not sure which ones are Linux compatiable though.

Many more as well. Hope this helps.
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Old 05-13-2007, 04:01 PM   #3
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Try here...http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
 
  


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