if_bridge on a vlan-trunk

Julian Elischer julian at elischer.org
Thu Oct 11 14:11:53 PDT 2007


Jon Otterholm wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> Does anyone know if it is possible to put a transparent bridge on a
> vlan-trunk?
> 
> A working solution is to create a bridge for each vlan, but I would
> prefer to have one bridge instead of several hundreds of them.
> 
> Is this doable?
> 

it is using netgraph..


> In my lab environment I use a dual em(4) nic.
> 
> What would the drawbacks be if I create ~1500 if_bridge and attached
> each vlan-sub-if from each physical interface to their own bridge? Would
> this work?
> 
> //Jon
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