Re: AppleTalk Issues
Re: AppleTalk Issues
- Subject: Re: AppleTalk Issues
- From: "Justin C. Walker" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 15:02:25 -0700
On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 02:17 PM, Chris Gibson wrote:
Do any of you know how to VLAN tag the ports on an OS X Server.
Mac OS X does not handle termination of VLANs by itself, so you can't
"tag the ports".
Basically, our school system is getting new switches put in that do not
support appletalk routing. We only use appletalk to print in our
school
system. I was thinking that I could just set up appletalk to be routed
across the different VLANS using the extra port on the server, but I
have never set anything like this up. If you know how to do this or
another possible solution, your help would be greatly appreciated.
I don't understand what you want to do.
A VLAN only stretches as far as the LAN stretches, so without extra
work, VLAN packets don't get beyond routers. To get appletalk to be
routed "across different vlans" you still need an appletalk router
between the various VLANs.
Also, switches don't do routing in any guise; they just forward
ethernet packets from one plug to one or more others within the switch,
independent of the layer 3 protocols carried in the packets.
Perhaps there's a terminology clash?
Regards,
Justin
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