I was experimenting with VLANs on the RPi over the weekend. So far, I learned that you can implement a tagged VLAN in the 802.1q sense by installing the vlan library and adding the 8021q loaded modules to /etc/modules. Lots of good hints here (thanks, San Bergmans).
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install vlan
sudo modprobe 8021q
sudo su
sudo echo "8021q" >> /etc/modules
exit
I also plugged in a USB to Ethernet adapter into the powered Hub on my RPi and started adding vlan ports to the /etc/network/interfaces file. I am not sure how this will play out on the setup that I am using. I do have to reset the managed router to access the new vlans on a port that the vlans will access. I also need to make sure that my /etc/network/interfaces file has the correct mac address for the adapter so that it will come up as eth1 when it is plugged in.
I really didn't get too much of a chance to try it out because of other commitments and I was moving all of my media circuits to a separate vlan through the house. I grabbed the router that I was using for connecting the RPis to the external FIOS network to reuse for the media vlan. I first setup the router with a different subnet, connected it to the outside circuit, then proceeded to reset all of the media components to the new vlan. Finally, I plugged the LAN part of the router into a managed switch on the new vlan and rebooted all of the media elements. The only problem that I had was resetting the Ceton Echo to authenticate to my Windows Media Center at its new IP.
I am anxious to get back to the house tonight to tryout my connections to the other vlans within the house. More later.
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