Kyle McDonald writes:
> Can onyone point me to docs or howtos for VLAN tagging on Solaris? Or 
> trunking?

"man dladm"

> I've read through the ifconfig man page, and I don't see mention of VLAN 
> tagging.

Right; it's a link-layer feature, not an IP feature.

> How doe VLAN tagging work on Solaris?

On drivers that support VLAN tagging, you can generally just plumb up
(using ifconfig) the desired tag.  The hack (and it *is* a hack) is to
multiply the VLAN id number by 1000 and add it to the instance number.

For instance, if you want VLAN tag 3 on ce1, you'd plumb "ce3001".

> For some reason I was thinking that if I had an ethernet interfacecabled 
> to a switch that was sending packets for 3 different vlans down the wire 
> to my interface (say bge0) that I'd have to create a bge0:X for each 
> VLAN, and configure each to use the correct tag, and have an IP 
> appropriate for that VLAN.
> 
> What if I have 2(or more)  interfaces that both recieve the same 3 VLANs 
> on 2(or more) cables from the same switch? Can the bandwidth be 
> aggregated? and the load shared? How is this configured? What needs to 
> be setup on the switch side of things?

Tagging is "above" aggregation.  Aggregate the interfaces first, and
then configure VLANs above.

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