[tech] madako, the new PC router

Matt Johnston matt at ucc.asn.au
Sat Jun 12 19:00:54 WST 2004


On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 06:56:55PM +0800, Alastair Irvine wrote:
> On Fri, 11 June, 2004 at 10:14:22PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> [snip]
> > 
> > It's arrived! It's got a basic Debian install and is sitting in the
> > rack under hydra. Possible fiddling with VLANs tomorrow, in conjunction
> > with olive, the Cisco 2924XL and later bertoli, the 2912? .
> 
> How did the VLAN stuff go?  Roughly what can those two Cisco devices do?
> Are they routers, swiches, fibre mulitplexers or something completely
> different?

Switches. IIRC bertoli only does ISL (Cisco proprietary FLAN stuff), not
802.1q or whatever. Could be wrong, someone'll correct me if I am.

Matt


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