Sever 2003 standard and 802.1q... 1

[americanmcneil]

Can Microsoft server 2003 standard be made to see traffic tagged with 802.1q encapsulation? I would like to use the server as a monitoring server but I need it to be able to see my VLAN tagged traffic. Anyone know if this is possible?

Scott "Thrown to the Wolves" McNeil

http://www.epproach.net

 

[ADB100]

It's a NIC driver thing..... Most NIC's support this but by default the 802.1q tags are stripped off before the driver passes them up the stack. You can normally make a registry change to enable this monitoring capabiliy. I have an Intel PRO/100+ adapter in a PC that has all the bindings removed and is used solely for monitoring.

To enable this with Intel adapters have a look here:

http://www.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-005897.htm

I have a Broadcom Gigabit adapter in my notebook as well and there is an equivilent setting for this but I can't seem to find the link I had.

HTH

Andy

 

[ADB100]

Broadcom link:

http://www.networkinstruments.com/support/osup1056.html