Hi All

I have found some older FAQ's that explain how to trunk with Linux by recompiling the kernel and all the right utilities. Being in the last semester of a Network Admin degree and having a job and a family I lack the time for all that. But I want to be able to run some VLANs for labs in conjuntion with a cisco 2900 switch.

Does anyone know if there is any router distro that comes with the ability to trunk compiled in the kernel and the nesessary utilities?

And are there only certain NIC's that it will work with or is any fast ethernet card workable?

Thanks

I got vlans working with bog standard Suse9.0. As far as I know you don't need to recompile any recent kernels for this functionality. It should work with most modern FE nics, although I used Intel if that helps.

Really? hmm, do you know of a good how to for this or did you figure it out yourself?

I was hoping for one of the smaller, router distros but I suppose that could do. I could just install it with the routing basics.

I belive that there are some NIC modules that do not support it, but the big networking companies' cards usually do (Intel, 3Com, etc)

I basically installed the vlan package then googled for the documentation. I seem to recall is was very easy to do, I think the command is vconfig.

I Gentoo does vlans, thats a pretty minimal distro.