Hello James, Thanks for your response and my apology for the confusion and late follow up on this thread.
You are right. Each VLAN is supposed to be mapped to a different subnet. Not that we need additional confirmation but Solaris 10 System Administration Guide IP Services doc says: "Because IP subnets are commonly used, use IP subnets when setting up a VLAN network interface. This means that each VID assigned to a VLAN interface of a physical network interface belongs to different subnets." I can try and explain how I temporarily got into this confusion myself but that may even confuse you more :) so just never mind the rest of this post. I was starting to think about a solution for some potential need and for a moment mistakenly thought having one subnet tied to 2 VLANs at the same time could be the answer. I didn't even think about sending any traffic as in my special case, the interface was only planned to receive traffic (directed to its single IP address, sourced by 2 different parties and carried over one VLAN or the other depending on the sourcing party) but even this case is problematic if not completely wrong too. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
