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VLAN tagging and the VIOS: some questions and answers.
Here are some questions I received recently regarding VLAN
tagging on the VIO server. My answers are shown in green . “Hi Chris, Q: I’m trying to
understand when, where and why there would be the need to use ‘mkvdev –vlan
(etc.) on the VIOS, and I’m wondering whether you would be able to clarify this
for me, please. Is it necessary to add
the VLAN tag devices to the SEA, or is it suffice to just have them defined
within the Virtual Ethernet itself which is part of the SEA?” A:
It is suffice to simply define the VLAN ids assigned... [More]
Tags:  tagging ent6 sea virt_adapters=ent3 vlan power7 hmc tag -attr mkvdev ent5 -dev -vlan chdev dynamic dlpar |