[lime-dev] VLANs protocol in LibreMesh

Hi, This is Roger, from Barcelona, one of the maintainers of qMp [1]. I would like to ask you a couple of questions regarding VLANs in LiMe and its compatibility with qMp. In qMp we use 802.1q to create VLANs for BMX6 (e.g. eth0.12). This is quite a mess for devices with a switch, because they typically block traffic created on top of the switch's own VLANs (e.g. eth0.1.12). Therefore, we are going to switch to 802.1ad in wired devices, the same as in LiMe, from the next major release on. This will break backwards compatibility with previous versions of qMp, but I believe it's a good decision. I wonder how LiMe manages VLANs in wireless devices. Do you also use 802.1ad there, or 802.1q? In order not to completely break backwards compatibility, our idea is to keep using 802.1q on wireless devices. What do you think it would be the best approach to allow LiMe/qMp interoperability? Kind regards, Roger [1] http://qmp.cat