[j-nsp] VLAN tagging on fxp?

[Chris Morrow]

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Kristian Larsson wrote:
>> So, this sounds a lot like the bay switch I have :( 'port based' and
>> 'tagged' which confused the hell out of me for a long time :( I found I
>> had to put switch ports into vlans in more than one config/setup screen,
>> it was just non-intuitive :( So, does this switch ONLY do port-based for
>> ALL or can you get a trunk on 1 and port-based for the rest? perhaps it's
>> like the bay and you have to config it in 2 places to get port 1 in vlan
>> 12 and port 2 in vlan 13 and port 8 as a tagged port ?
>
> Unfortunately this one is not like the bay or any
> other switch. The port I'm connected to is tagged
> end of story :(
>

bummer indeed :(

> If we just for a second pretended it was a Cisco
> which made is possible to send untagged traffic,
> I might still want to be able to tag my mgmt vlan,
> right? And I'm able to but it's setup at 1496

I'm not sure why you'd want to tag the mgmt vlan anyway (aside from the 
current switch issues)... for our things we just point the fxp0 into the 
switch then put all 'router' things on one vlan with all 'switch' things 
on another and so forth... each port used (minus the uplinks into whatever 
routes for the 'management network') is just a normal switch port 
(untagged). Anyway, difference in philosophy probably :)