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Can it be done with the Ethernet Sheild and associated Library?

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Can it be done with the Ethernet Sheild and associated Library?

Depends on what "it" is, which ethernet shield, and which library you are talking about.

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The Arduino Ethernet Sheild and the Ethernet Library.

http://arduino.cc/en/Main/ArduinoEthernetShield

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It's not something built in to any library I know. You'd have to write your own low-level, raw Ethernet frames.

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What’s the problem you’re trying to solve?

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I'm trying to implement vlan tagging?

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Basically you're going to need to tell your router/switch that the Arduino's Ethernet port is a trunk port (or does trunk autosensing), then you're going to need to manually write your Ethernet frames to have an 802.1Q header before the Ethernet Type field:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.1Q

and when you receive packets you'll need to manually decode the frames to pull out the vlan tags.

I don't think you'd be able to use the regular Ethernet library to do any of this; you'd have to write your own interface to the WS5100. I looked through the WS5100.cpp and .h files and didn't see anything about raw frames so I'm not sure it's even possible, but I didn't dig that deep so may have easily missed something.

In any event given the huge RAM etc. limitations on an Arduino I can't think of why this would be a good idea to try other than "because I can", but please let us know if you pull it off -- it would be very impressive.

Good luck!