crossbow discuss - Apr 2008 - crossbow dladm and create-vlan

Hi Y''all,

It looks like the the create-vlan command was removed in the dladm
shipped with the crossbow beta bits. And the typical way of doing a
VLAN (i.e. ifconfig vnic14440001 for VLAN 1444 on vnic1) doesn''t seem
to work either.

Are VLANs functional on the Crossbow beta?

Hardware is a T5240 using the nxge driver.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,
Jason

Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
> Hi Y''all,
> 
> It looks like the the create-vlan command was removed in the dladm
> shipped with the crossbow beta bits. And the typical way of doing a
> VLAN (i.e. ifconfig vnic14440001 for VLAN 1444 on vnic1) doesn''t
seem
> to work either.
<NICname><VLANtag><NICinstance>

where NICinstance must be three numbers, and you have four.

And VNIC instances can only go to 899.

And you create a VNIC on a VLAN, not make a VNIC look like a VLAN

dladm create-vnic -d nxge1444001 .... 444

where I am artificially calling it vnic444.
> 
> Are VLANs functional on the Crossbow beta?
> 
> Hardware is a T5240 using the nxge driver.
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Best Regards,
> Jason
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> It looks like the the create-vlan command was removed in the dladm
 > shipped with the crossbow beta bits.

The create-vlan subcommand is new in Nevada as of build 83, but I believe
the Crossbow beta bits are build 81. 

-- 
meem

Jason,

The VLAN implementation is being transitioned in the Crossbow gate. In  
our next release we''ll have finalized the VLAN functionality, and  
VLANs will be instantiated as VNICs. When this work is complete you''ll
be able to do a create-vlan on the underlying NIC, which will  
automatically create a VNIC with a VLAN id and the unicast address of  
the underlying NIC. As an alternative you''ll also be able to specify a
VLAN id when creating a VNIC through create-vnic.

Nicolas.

On Apr 16, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
> Hi Y''all,
>
> It looks like the the create-vlan command was removed in the dladm
> shipped with the crossbow beta bits. And the typical way of doing a
> VLAN (i.e. ifconfig vnic14440001 for VLAN 1444 on vnic1) doesn''t
seem
> to work either.
>
> Are VLANs functional on the Crossbow beta?
>
> Hardware is a T5240 using the nxge driver.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> Best Regards,
> Jason
> _______________________________________________
> crossbow-discuss mailing list
> crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/crossbow-discuss
-- 
Nicolas Droux - Solaris Networking - Sun Microsystems, Inc.
nicolas.droux at sun.com - http://blogs.sun.com/droux

Hi Nicolas,

That''ll be really nice and clean. Has Crossbow been targetted at a
flag day for integration yet? Thank you in advance.

-J

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Nicolas Droux <Nicolas.Droux at sun.com>
wrote:
> Jason,
>
>  The VLAN implementation is being transitioned in the Crossbow gate. In our
> next release we''ll have finalized the VLAN functionality, and
VLANs will be
> instantiated as VNICs. When this work is complete you''ll be able
to do a
> create-vlan on the underlying NIC, which will automatically create a VNIC
> with a VLAN id and the unicast address of the underlying NIC. As an
> alternative you''ll also be able to specify a VLAN id when creating
a VNIC
> through create-vnic.
>
>  Nicolas.
>
>
>
>  On Apr 16, 2008, at 1:37 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi Y''all,
> >
> > It looks like the the create-vlan command was removed in the dladm
> > shipped with the crossbow beta bits. And the typical way of doing a
> > VLAN (i.e. ifconfig vnic14440001 for VLAN 1444 on vnic1)
doesn''t seem
> > to work either.
> >
> > Are VLANs functional on the Crossbow beta?
> >
> > Hardware is a T5240 using the nxge driver.
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Jason
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > crossbow-discuss mailing list
> > crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org
> > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/crossbow-discuss
> >
>
>  --
>  Nicolas Droux - Solaris Networking - Sun Microsystems, Inc.
>  nicolas.droux at sun.com - http://blogs.sun.com/droux
>
>