https://a996c8ee.aww-3cz.pages.dev/tags/dot1q/ Recent content in Dot1q on Aaron's Worthless Words Hugo en Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://a996c8ee.aww-3cz.pages.dev/posts/2009/02/vlans-on-linux/ Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://a996c8ee.aww-3cz.pages.dev/posts/2009/02/vlans-on-linux/ <p>My home network has a Linux box running IPTables as it&rsquo;s center point, and, since there are four networks, it has 4 NICs and 4 cables into the switch.  I kept running into problems with the NICs (they would reorder depending on what flavor of Linux was installed), so I wanted to consolidate the NICs down to 2 &ndash; one for the Internet link and one for the LAN segments with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1Q" title="Wikipedia.com -- IEEE 802.1q">802.1q tagging</a>.</p>