On 11/05/2010 12:45, Toni Mueller wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to figure out whether I can use OpenBSD in a nested > vlan scenario. I'm looking at a data centre where I want to get two > wires, each carrying several vlans, and funneling them home across a > WAN link. Various switch vendors claim to be able to do it, but I > couldn't really figure out what the current state of affairs wrt. > OpenBSD is. On the other side of the wires or fibres, I'll be talking > to Junipers, Ciscos (6509), and/or Foundy switches and/or routers on > the other side(s). > > The desired setup looks like this: > > data centre LAN --- switch --- WAN --- home (OpenBSD) > > I want to run at least three vlans across the WAN link, and need to > keep the vlans strictly separated. I also need to do traffic shaping on > a per-vlan basis. :/
First of all, how will you connect from home to the data center? Normal household broadband? Can't do VLAN's over that. If you have leased lines for example, say from an office to datacenter, then you can do it but only if they are VLAN clear. I had some links once from Office to different sites from a company called Adapt, but they where not VLAN clear and it was problem which we had to work around, and it wasn't that bad but once we installed VLAN clear lines it was much better.
