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setting up vlan switch

I'm getting ready to put in a layer 3 switch where I will be setting up vlans. I was reading through the astaro version 5 manual and it sates that the nics must have a vlan tag capable driver. I've nerver heard of such how can you tell if your nic has a vlan capable driver? I'm using all 3com nics 3c905 mainly. If the 3coms can't do it which nics should I be buying?

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0 Xeno over 20 years ago

Have a look at:
http://docs.astaro.org/HCL-5.0.txt

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0 amp10000 over 20 years ago in reply to Xeno

Have you set up vlans before with astaro and which nics did you use? I don't see how none of the 3com cards have vlan support. 3com along with intel are the biggest players in quality nics.
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0 techno.kid over 20 years ago in reply to amp10000

I´m using a similar scenario with a Cisco switch - it does not work properly with "my" 3Com NICs using the driver "3c95x" of ASL.

Some time ago I found a page that mentioned a "bug" within the 3Com drivers and that there has to be a patch to be added to fix the issue with VLANs (AFAIR the frame size is not corrected).
Since I had no time lately to check if VLANs would work with another NIC I "live" with the fact that my bandwith isn´t 100Mbit because of wrong packets...

Because of my experience I´d advice to use only the NICs that are marked "t" in the HCL.

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0 BarryG over 20 years ago in reply to amp10000

IIRC, 3Com has not been very supportive of the linux drivers, so their quality is inferior compared to Intel drivers, etc...

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0 BarryG over 20 years ago in reply to amp10000

IIRC, 3Com has not been very supportive of the linux drivers, so their quality is inferior compared to Intel drivers, etc...

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