Showing posts with label ifconfig. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ifconfig. Show all posts

06 July 2011

VLAN Tagging and Vanity Naming in Solaris 11

While awaiting Solaris 11 to be released, I've recently been poking
around in Solaris 11 Express for a preview of what to expect.  In setting
up a test box, I needed to set up VLAN tagging (802.1q trunking) on
an interface.  Due to some of the new Solaris 11 networking features,

16 December 2010

Using Logical Network Interfaces

Logical interfaces (logints, vips) are sometimes overlooked though can be
quite handy.  For instance, they can be used for IP based hosting (think
webservers), failover of clustered services, testing, providing network
connectivity for zones, etc.  Additionally, they are relatively trivial

24 November 2010

Host Info - Network Interfaces

As part of the 'host info' series, we're on to network interfaces.
I know, can't be too hard, run 'ifconfig'.  That's fine if you want IP
(layer 3) related information, but what about layer 2 details?  To get
link status, associated interface speed, duplex, and VLAN tagging

18 November 2010

VLAN Tagged Interfaces (Linux)

A while back, I wrote on how to setup VLAN tagged interfaces on Solaris
and FreeBSD.  Though I've also needed to set them up under Linux, I
never seemed to get around to writing up how to do so.  To remedy this,
the following are our setup details: