Re: vlan trunking with a powerconnect 5224

[Kent Watsen]

Looking at the output from `ifconfig` (see below), I notice that the 
trunk0 doesn't show that its "UP" - why wouldn't it be up?

Thanks,
Kent

# ifconfig
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 33168
       groups: lo
       inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
       inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
       inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
gem0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
       lladdr 00:03:ba:0f:34:09
       groups: egress
       media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
       status: active
       inet xx.xxx.xxx.x netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 96.231.191.255   
             [public ip masked]
       inet6 fe80::203:baff:fe0f:3409%gem0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
gem1: flags=8822<BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
       lladdr 00:03:ba:0f:34:0a
       media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
       status: active
hme0: 
flags=8b63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,PROMISC,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> 
mtu 1500
       lladdr 08:00:20:f2:e3:d4
       trunk: trunkdev trunk0
       media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
       status: active
       inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:fef2:e3d4%hme0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
hme1: 
flags=8b63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,PROMISC,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> 
mtu 1500
       lladdr 08:00:20:f2:e3:d4
       trunk: trunkdev trunk0
       media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
       status: active
       inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:fef2:e3d5%hme1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
hme2: 
flags=8b63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,PROMISC,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> 
mtu 1500
       lladdr 08:00:20:f2:e3:d4
       trunk: trunkdev trunk0
       media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
       status: active
       inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:fef2:e3d6%hme2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
hme3: 
flags=8b63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,PROMISC,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> 
mtu 1500
       lladdr 08:00:20:f2:e3:d4
       trunk: trunkdev trunk0
       media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
       status: active
       inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:fef2:e3d7%hme3 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x6
enc0: flags=0<> mtu 1536
trunk0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
       lladdr 08:00:20:f2:e3:d4
       trunk: trunkproto roundrobin
               trunkport hme3 active
               trunkport hme2 active
               trunkport hme1 active
               trunkport hme0 master,active
       groups: trunk
       media: Ethernet autoselect
       status: active
vlan2: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
       lladdr 08:00:20:f2:e3:d4
       vlan: 2 priority: 0 parent interface: trunk0
       groups: vlan
       inet 10.0.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.2.255
       inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:fef2:e3d4%vlan2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa
vlan3: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
       lladdr 08:00:20:f2:e3:d4
       vlan: 3 priority: 0 parent interface: trunk0
       groups: vlan
       inet 10.0.3.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.3.255
       inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:fef2:e3d4%vlan3 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb
pflog0: flags=141<UP,RUNNING,PROMISC> mtu 33168
       groups: pflog