I haven't actually used the different ports yet, but here is my
understanding of it
all of the interfaces are gig
you have eth1 that is the port labeled 'wan'
you then have eth0 that is connected to the 4-port switch, you can
configure the switch so that port 1 is eth0.3 port 2 is eth0.2, etc. If
you look at stats for eth1 on the system you will see the combined
traffic, but after doing the initial setup, you can use the eth1.1
interfaces exactly the same way you would use the eth1, eth2, etc
interfaces on a normal system.
the switch is only able to use vlans 0-15 (4 bits of vlan addressing)
sorry, this is a netgear, not a linksys
http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/netgear/wndr3700
they run ~$130 street price
the bufferbloat project picked this model to use for their testing and
they have a openwrt derivitive tweaked for it called cerowrt
http://www.bufferbloat.net/projects/cerowrt
David Lang
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Rick Thomas wrote:
Hi David,
That's interesting and helpful. Do you have a URL for technical details on the
3700?
I'm not familiar with vlans (I know what they are and I've read the IEEE specs
on how they are implemented, but I don't have any experience with the
nitty-gritty of actually using them.) Please correct me if I'm getting this
all wrong...
I'd configure the one on-chip port to have all 4 vlans. The on-chip port is
connected to the uplink of the 4-port switch and delivers all traffic to it.
The switch would then be configured to send each vlan in/out a separate port,
in the process stripping out the vlan protocol overhead bits.
That would seem to give 4 ports, not 5. But that's just a nit -- or it could
be evidence of a basic misunderstanding on my part; correction are welcome.
Have I got the rest of it right?
Thanks!
Rick
On Sep 16, 2011, at 2:04 PM, da...@lang.hm wrote:
the linksys 3700 has two ports on the main processor, but one of those ports is
connected to a 4-port switch that is able to do vlans so you could partition it
up and use all 5 ports independantly. It does have both 2.4 and 5G wireless,
but you can turn those off.
David Lang
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