Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> writes: > On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 9:14 AM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: >> >> They are connected to different vlans on the same switch, so they don't >> share the same broadcast domain. The switch shows the mac addresses of >> the phones only in the expected vlan. >> > > Out of curiosity, have you tried actually sending a broadcast on the > VLAN to verify that it actually is implemented correctly? If your > switch is mixing ARP across VLANs that would explain this behavior.
Not yet --- and it won't exactly be an easy thing to do. It's a high-quality switch. If it couldn't keep vlans seperated, the customers it was designed for would have them pretty much all replaced under warranty. > I've never messed with VLAN on linux but I'd think that you could Me neither; so far, the switch does it. > probably implement VLAN in software and actually save yourself a > physical network interface as well (both interfaces could go out over > the same wire and be handled appropriately by the switch). Hm. That might even be possible, in a very complicated setup. Maybe some day, I can do that, after lots of learning.