NETGRAPH- bridge vlans using netgraph help

[Abdullah Tariq]

So it is not possible to replicate behaviour of standard L2 switches using
freebsd where we have different VLANs, access and trunk ports?

On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 9:16 PM, Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net> wrote:

> 27.04.2018 22:57, Abdullah Tariq wrote:
>
> >     And please do not top-post and reply to the list, not privately.
> Thank you.
> >
> > sorry for that.
> >
> >
> >     They do but that's not what you need. You deal with untagged frames
> on igb5,
> >     so do not create any vlan on top on igb5 but use it directly:
> >     ifconfig bridge10 create addm igb5 addm vlan3 up
> >
> >
> > so if i need 2 ports with same vlan tags to communicate with each other
> > i create 2 bridges
> > ifconfig vlan2 create vlan 5 vlandev igb5
> > ifconfig vlan3 create vlan 5 vlandev igb6
> > ifconfig bridge10 create addm igb5 addm vlan3 up
> > ifconfig bridge11 create addm igb6 addm vlan2 up
> >
> > is this the right way?
>
> No. If you have two ports that should carry untagged frames and form
> single vlan
> and this vlan has no other ports carrying tagged frames, then
> this vlan effectively has *no* tag number, or better say, its tag number
> does not matter.
>
> In that case, do not create any vlan interfaces for the vlan at all but
> bridge ports directly:
>
> ifconfig bridge10 addm igb5 addm igb6
>
>
>