As long as you control or know how tagged packets are handled on the WAN
interface, using a VLAN (eth0.10) is the most straightforward method. As a
test issue "arp-scan -lI eth0.10" to make sure the VLAN is isolated as you
expect.
If a VLAN does not work for you, creating a dummy network devic
Thanks Lonnie. Yes I did think about doing that. I guess I cant see any reason
why it shouldnt work but I do feel a little uncomfortable that its sitting on
the WAN interface which is on an Ethernet segment shared by all the other
systems.
Is there any way to create a Loopback interface?
Rega