Hi,
I have a bizzarre question. Suppose you have a 8 port switch, on which you can configure 6 access ports connected to 6 different VLANs, and the 2 remaining port configured to trunk all of the VLANs present on the access ports to another switch. This is a tipical config to drive 6 VLAN onto a single cable to another switch. This is pretty simple to achieve.
I *need* to achieve the same result using a host with 8 interface adapters. I need to have 6 of them connected to several segments, ad 2 ports trunking all the VLANs out.
And it must be a layer2 work, it must behave the same as a switch, no routing involved.
I really need that: to replace a 40 buck switch with a server.
Any idea about the way to do it? I was thinking about vlan interfaces and bridging, but I'm just a little bit confused...
Thanks
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Topic: Re-creating a switch