Hi,

I am a AIX newbie. Can someone please point me to some documentation
which describes how to set up an IP based VLAN? I want to know what
commands to use to create VLAN interfaces on my AIX 5.2 server. Also,
what configuration should be done on the switch ?

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
js

take a look at this url which explains it well

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infoce...herchannel.htm

Thanks a lot for the info Mark.

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any VLAN specific stuff on that link. Do
you know if some other resources?

Thanks,
js

assumed you wanted fail over style comms...obviously not-apologies.

trying again ...assume you require to setup tcpip on your aix server?
"smitty tcpip" configures your adapters, is that what you're looking to
do?

On 13 Sep 2005 19:57:32 -0700, "Jigs" <jigar.jigar@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am a AIX newbie. Can someone please point me to some documentation
>which describes how to set up an IP based VLAN? I want to know what
>commands to use to create VLAN interfaces on my AIX 5.2 server. Also,
>what configuration should be done on the switch ?
>
>Any help is much appreciated.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Regards,
>js

Can't help you n the actual commands -- never looked.

smitty -> devices -> communication devices -> ethernet adapters -> vlan ->
add a vlan

You'll select which base adapter to put the vlan on (the coressponding enx
adapter should NOT be configured with an address) and add the vlan tag or
ID number. This creates a new etx/enx eternet interface; go into tcp/ip -
further configuration and hang the IP address and mask on it, and you're
ready to go.

On the switch side, if it's a cisco switch, the port needs to be
configured as a vlan trunk.

Not sure about 5.2, but 5.3 also lets you group multiple adapters into an
etherchannel and then put the vlans on the etherchannel. Not sure what the
switch needs for this, ('pairing' and vlan trunks?) but I had it working
until I found out HACMP 5.2 doesn't do vlan (bummer).

TK

Thanks TK.

I have a Cisco 2900 series switch. Will that work? Or will I need
another "layer2-3" switch?

Thanks,
js