P-t-P 2x SEXTANT 5HnD, VLAN tagging, multicast
Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2012 10:32 pm
I have a rather a specific problem with a point to point installation of two SEXTANTs.
All the traffic from my network should be VLAN tagged towards the provider therefore I created a new VLAN on ether1-local interface and bridged it with wlan1; on the second point (e.g. the other SEXTANT) I bridged ether1-local and wlan1. So far so good, as all the 5GHz band is free and nv2 is used - the connection works like a charm with speeds at about 78/78 Mbps according to webmin and actual speeds are about 5MB/s both ways.
Anyhow, I'd also like to bridge multicast traffic. IGMPv2 joins/parts is generated on a computer connected directly to ether1-local port on sextant 2, and multicast traffic is sent - you guessed it - untagged - from network, connected to ether1-local on first SEXTANT. So the problem is the multicast traffic isn't bridged.
Any ideas what could be done?
All the traffic from my network should be VLAN tagged towards the provider therefore I created a new VLAN on ether1-local interface and bridged it with wlan1; on the second point (e.g. the other SEXTANT) I bridged ether1-local and wlan1. So far so good, as all the 5GHz band is free and nv2 is used - the connection works like a charm with speeds at about 78/78 Mbps according to webmin and actual speeds are about 5MB/s both ways.
Anyhow, I'd also like to bridge multicast traffic. IGMPv2 joins/parts is generated on a computer connected directly to ether1-local port on sextant 2, and multicast traffic is sent - you guessed it - untagged - from network, connected to ether1-local on first SEXTANT. So the problem is the multicast traffic isn't bridged.
Any ideas what could be done?