Avila GW2348-4 and VLANs not working

[George Neville-Neil]

On Aug 27, 2012, at 18:40 , John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:

> Over the weekend, I tried to update my board to support VLANs, and when
> I did, things didn't go so well.  I have 9.0-PRERELEASE installed on it,
> but the npe driver hasn't changed much since then, so I'm not sure updating
> will fix things...
> 
> When I tried to run VLANs on the board, things didn't work.  When I
> tcpdump'd the base interface, I got a ton of truncated-ip messages...
> Some of the packets that were suppose to be on a vlan didn't appear to
> have a vlan tag on the npe0 interface...  I previously used the same
> switch w/ an older x86 box and vlans worked fine, though on a much
> older FreeBSD release...
> 
> I've attached the dmesg.boot...  iirc, the modifications to the source
> were some things to make pf usable, but that's about it...
> 
> Any ideas what needs to be done to make vlans work?
> 
> P.S.  Since I only have one board, and I'm using this as a firewall
> experimenting is a little difficult.  Anyone know of a another good
> ARM board that I could use (and isn't too expensive)?

I'm a fan of the BeagleBone, which works with FreeBSD, and is about $89.

http://beagleboard.org/buy

Rasberry Pis are cheap but impossible to come by.

Best,
George