BIVBlog #13: Adding network interfaces to a notebook

What if you need more than one Ethernet interface on a notebook? A IEEE 802.1Q tagged VLAN capable switch solves the problem.

Table of Contents

00:01:20 Extra network cards in a portable PC
00:02:00 USB Ethernet interfaces
00:03:00 Managed IEEE 802.1Q tagged VLAN capable switch
00:05:05 Limitations of the approach
00:06:30 Linux side setup
00:10:25 Testing with ping6 ff02::1%eth0
00:11:10 Investigating with wireshark
00:14:10 Switch side setup (Cisco 1800/IOS)
00:20:02 More testing, using a second notebook

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2 Comments

  1. Hi Benedikt,

    really nice video about getting more Ethernet Ports to a Notebook, my thanks.

    Also the other videos a quite nice and interesting. But it would be nice to have a Stereo Audio because its annoying to listen to the videos with headphones and have only audio on one ear,

    cheerio
    Steve

    • Benedikt Stockebrand

      Hi Steve,

      glad you liked it. It’s a bit of an odd topic, but I’ve had enough course pariticants ask about it to give it a try on the blog as well.

      > But it would be nice to have a Stereo Audio because its annoying to listen to the videos with headphones and have only audio on one ear,

      Thanks for the hint, I hadn’t realized there was anything going wrong there—I don’t use headphones for editing.

      Cheers,

      Benedikt

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