Re: AppleTalk Issues
Re: AppleTalk Issues
- Subject: Re: AppleTalk Issues
- From: Peter John Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 10:36:56 -0400
On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 06:02 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote:
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".
Though this would be an excellent feature to add to a server version of
Panther, 802.1q is a nice standard.
Basically, our school system is getting new switches put in that do
not
support appletalk routing.
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.
There are switches that have integrated routers, that look just like
layer2 switches. It could certainly be confusing to someone who does
not deal with network gear every day.
The first version of OS X server came with a four port 10/100 and could
act as an Appletalk router when connected to different subnets (vlans).
I am thinking that a cheap solution for the original poster might be an
old pentium 133 running Linux with if_vlan support running netatalk.
Connect it up to an 802.1q trunk port on his switch and have the linux
box route appletalk only and seed the networks. I have not found anyone
who has come out with a way to hack vlan support into darwin.
Peter Hill
Network Engineer
Carnegie Mellon University
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