Netgraph VLan support

Ross Cameron ross.cameron at linuxpro.co.za
Wed Feb 24 13:15:41 UTC 2010


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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Ross Cameron
<ross.cameron at linuxpro.co.za> wrote:
> Hi there all
>
> I've trying to setup nested VLans using netgraph and most of my
> googling suggests that this can be done.
>    But alas it is not working on this side. I'm running a standard
> FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 AMD64.
>
> The below works just fine and creates a perfectly functional Vlan
> interface ngeth0:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ifconfig bge0 10.123.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
> kldload ng_ether
> kldload ng_vlan
> ngctl mkpeer bge0: vlan lower downstream
> ngctl name bge0:lower vlanL1
> ngctl connect bge0: vlanL1: upper nomatch
> ngctl mkpeer vlanL1: eiface vlan3555 ether
> ngctl msg vlanL1: addfilter '{ vlan=3555 hook="vlan3555" }'
> ifconfig ngeth0 link 00:1a:4b:d4:3e:c2
> ifconfig ngeth0 10.124.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> The below however does not and just throws an error :
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ngctl mkpeer ngeth0: vlan lower downstream
> ngctl name ngeth0:lower vlanL2
> ngctl connect ngeth0: vlanL2: upper nomatch
> ngctl mkpeer vlanL2: eiface vlan2555 ether
> ngctl msg vlanL2: addfilter '{ vlan=2555 hook="vlan2555" }'
> ifconfig ngeth1 link 00:1a:4b:d4:3e:c2
> ifconfig ngeth1 10.125.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> The error is:
> ----------------
> ngctl: send msg: Protocol family not supported
> ngctl: send msg: No such file or directory
>
>
>
> Any advice?
>
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> --
> "Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in
> overalls and looks like work."
>    Thomas Alva Edison
>    Inventor of 1093 patents, including:
>        The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures.
>



-- 
"Opportunity is most often missed by people because it is dressed in
overalls and looks like work."
    Thomas Alva Edison
    Inventor of 1093 patents, including:
        The light bulb, phonogram and motion pictures.


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