Configuring VLAN devices

6.10 LPAR mode z/VM guest

Configure VLANs with the ip link add command. See the ip-link man page for details.

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Information about the current VLAN configuration is available by listing the files in

/proc/net/vlan/*

with cat or more. For example:

bash-2.04# cat /proc/net/vlan/config
VLAN Dev name    | VLAN ID
Name-Type: VLAN_NAME_TYPE_RAW_PLUS_VID_NO_PAD  bad_proto_recvd: 0
eth2.100       | 100  | eth2
eth2.200       | 200  | eth2
eth2.300       | 300  | eth2
bash-2.04# cat /proc/net/vlan/eth2.300
eth2.300  VID: 300       REORDER_HDR: 1  dev->priv_flags: 1
         total frames received:     10914061
          total bytes received:   1291041929
      Broadcast/Multicast Rcvd:            6

      total frames transmitted:     10471684
       total bytes transmitted:   4170258240
            total headroom inc:            0
           total encap on xmit:     10471684
Device: eth2
INGRESS priority mappings: 0:0  1:0  2:0  3:0  4:0  5:0  6:0 7:0
EGRESS  priority Mappings:
bash-2.04#