vlan without ip address

[saeedeh motlagh]

when i do that, the vlan is defined but from a system in a vlan, i can't
ping the other one which is in the same vlan. so i think that the vlan is
not working. am i right?

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Juli Mallett <jmallett at freebsd.org> wrote:

> You probably just need to do ifconfig vlanxxx up instead of assigning an
> IP.
>
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 00:08, saeedeh motlagh
> <saeedeh.motlagh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi every body
> >
> > i wanna configure a freebsd box as a switch. in order to do that, i
> bridged
> > all my interfaces to have switching and it works fine. after that i want
> to
> > have vlans on it. as you know, in a real switch, a vlan is configured
> just
> > by assigning a port to it without any additional configuration and vlans
> > are submitted just by name. but in freebsd a vlan just works when it has
> an
> > ip address (i think). when i define vlan121 on two freebsd systems with
> ip
> > address it works fine but without ip address i don't know how it should
> be
> > worked.
> >
> > can sombody tell me if it is possible to simulate vlans in freebsd as
> they
> > are in a real switch? i mean can we have vlans without ip addresses which
> > works fine? maybe some kind of vlan which works by MAc address. is it
> > possible?
> > it's so necessary for me to do that:(
> >
> > yours,
> > motlagh
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