Questions

[Damien Lucas]

On Sun, Apr 15, 2001, Benoit Steiner wrote:
> About question 2, the only solution that works is to let the vlanbridge
> do the reverse ARP. But I don't  like it. It's up to you.

What about having an ATM card in the VLANserver so that VLANserver would
be able to do the reverse ARP on its own ?

> The biggest problem here is that when a computer boots the vlanbridge
> assumes it's on vlan2.

If the computer is alone we got a SNMP trap link-up.
Then we should ask for the switch the mac and vlan and then
   ask the VLANbridge to bridge.

BUT if the link was active when the computer boots (ie there's a hub)
   I don't think there is a method to be informed, is there ?

The solution is to flush the database and poll all the switch regularly
  but now, polling the switches takes up to 4 minutes. If we have to do
  it every 30min, it makes 15% downtime ... (we can't send snmp request
  while polling the switches !).

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nitrox