vlan problem

[John-Mark Gurney]

Tony Moseby wrote this message on Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 19:53 +0100:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> I have a nasty  vlan problem that you might be able to help:
> 
> I have two servers connect though  a marvel switch , in one of the servers 
> I am running FreeBSD 8.2.
> 
> Everything is fine until I define a vlan in each server,I can define the vlan in Fbsd side
> and all still ok,how ever when I define the vlan in the non Fbsd server the communication 
> 
> between the servers on the trunk/lan stops working.
> However the lan communication works fine.The trunk  has 10.0.1.10(A server)and 10.0.1.11(B server)
> 
> and the vlan 10.0.80.110 and 10.80.111 .
> If I ping from 1.0.1.10(non Fbsd) to 10.0.1.11(Bsd) , I can see the icmp request going to Bsd server
> but no answer coming back.
> If I ping from the Bsd server (1.0.1.11) to 1.0.1.10  I can see the icmp reques coming to 1.0.1.10
> and I also can see the answer arriving in 1.0.1.11, but nothing more happens.
> Looks like Fbsd can not handle this after the vlan been define in the non Fbsd server.
> Someone understand this behavor?

Also, is the routing table setup properly?  Are you sure the routing
table is setup so the response goes out the vlan interface?

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