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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 2009 19:26:40 +0200
From:      Sebastiaan van Erk <sebster@sebster.com>
To:        "Michael K. Smith - Adhost" <mksmith@adhost.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: esxi and freebsd vlans
Message-ID:  <49ECB050.6000909@sebster.com>
In-Reply-To: <17838240D9A5544AAA5FF95F8D52031605EC0B1E@ad-exh01.adhost.lan>
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Hi,

Thanks for your response! :-)

Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote:
> Hello Sebastian:
> --------
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I ran into the ESXi limit of 4 NICs per VM, so I figured I would work 
> around this using FreeBSD's vlan devices.
> 
> I made 2 test installs with the following interface configuration:
> 
> test1:
> ifconfig em0 inet 10.10.10.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
> ifconfig vlan create
> ifconfig vlan0 inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 vlan 22 vlandev
> em0
> 
> test2:
> ifconfig em0 inet 10.10.10.2 netmask 255.255.255.0
> ifconfig vlan create
> ifconfig vlan0 inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 vlan 22 vlandev
> em0
> 
> I can ping the other machine using the 10.10.10.x IP address no problem,
> 
> but the 192.168.1.x addresses don't work. I've tried setting the vlan id
> 
> on the vSwitch to none and to 22, but in neither of the two cases does 
> it work.
> 
> --------
> [Michael K. Smith - Adhost] 
> 
> You will need to make sure the switchport facing your server is set to
> 802.1Q trunk and has VLAN 22 allowed.  The IP address on em0 itself is
> "untagged" so it will work regardless of the port settings on the
> switch. VLAN 22 has the 4-byte header attached so the other side has to
> recognize the tag.

Just to clarify, both VM's are on a single ESXi server on a virtual 
switch, so no network hardware is involved. It is possible to configure 
the virtual switch to be on no vlan and on a specific vlan, but in both 
cases it didn't work. I'll see if I there are more settings I can change 
on the virtual switch.

> Regards,
> 
> Mike

Regards,
Sebastiaan

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