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From: Andrew Thompson <thompsa@FreeBSD.org>
To: Martes G Wigglesworth <martes@mgwigglesworth.com>
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Subject: Re: VLAN Trunking with Freebsd
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On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 11:42:39AM -0400, Martes G Wigglesworth wrote:
> I am sure this topic has been discussed before, however, I have been
> coming across unanswered inquiries within the last two months about
> possibly using the trunking aspect of 802.1q standard network routing,
> with only freebsd.  
> 
> I have attempted to create mulitple vlan interfaces and have failed, on
> 6.3-Stable.  
> 
> Does anyone know if the vlan emplimentation on Freebsd allows for
> trunking or, at the least, multiple vlans per physical device?

I sure does, maybe you could post your config to see where its going
wrong.

 ifconfig em0.100 create
 ifconfig em0.101 create
 ifconfig em0.102 create
 ...
 ifconfig em0.110 create


Andrew