From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 17 08:40:10 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 597AD106566C for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:40:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from saeedeh.motlagh@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ee0-f54.google.com (mail-ee0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6BD48FC13 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:40:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekc50 with SMTP id c50so4540640eek.13 for ; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:40:08 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=Dp+cTqfolya6T4iixzGcLD2q36jl964HRlKIVOctRa8=; b=gc8P68eXeIW+RCSBDflxitt1MJTPubzMrm0v0amLaMoDu3tomU7yGVVnD6kwqBG6Qe 8DW+FpihoOVB3zv24gxqgSRzsecsqNhArBxk1R1EdnxQIKXbs+RXdnpDaOYYCQ6chiLj YZfhzRuDthFfe5alJyzZKY1D/IiyvqcCa5rMg= Received: by 10.213.114.80 with SMTP id d16mr1010710ebq.77.1324109366365; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:09:26 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.205.114.130 with HTTP; Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:08:45 -0800 (PST) From: saeedeh motlagh Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:38:45 +0330 Message-ID: To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: vlan without ip address X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 17 Dec 2011 08:40:10 -0000 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