[VLAN] bnx2 issue?

[Ben Greear]

Andy Gorev wrote:
> Hello gurus.
> Please help me explain following problem.
> I have IBM blade HS21 with SLES 9.3 and last vanilla kernel 2.6.21 
> (also trying from distro with similar problem).
>
> ifconfig eth0 10.241.201.22 up
> ping 10.241.200.10 - all is ok in this step
>
> ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0
> vconfig add eth0 1
> ifconfig vlan1 10.241.201.22 up
>
> After that I have only one route through vlan1
> ping 10.241.200.10 - destination host unreachable
>
> What can be problem here? bnx2 module or 8021q? My Nortel configured 
> with vlan 1.
> While ping is running I can see that arp-replies didn't pass from eth0 
> to vlan1.
Vlan 1 is often a bad choice because switches use it for management 
traffic..
try vlan 2-4094 instead and see if that fixes the problem.

Thanks,
Ben

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