Hi Tony, VLAN 4095 is used by the CPU internally to desiginate an invalid VLAN and not for any other reasons as you stated. Traffic which enters the box on an invalid VLAN is assigned by the CPU to VLAN 4095, and subsequently dropped. I hope that helps. Pierre Rahme. Hempinstall.Anthony@xxxxxxxx wrote: >Dear vlan list members, > > We are running the commercial version of red hat linux advanced server 3.0 > >on a IBM blade server. The blades are connected to a nortel layer 2-7 >switch. > > We have successfully used the vconfig utility to set up an ip on vlan 2 >and >it coexists with other non-vlan ips on the same interface. > > There is a management vlan 4095 used by the nortel switch which is >reserved >for managing the switches via the blade center management module. > > By default all blade servers are members of vlan 4095 on their respective >switch ports. > > We tried to create an interface on vlan 4095 and encountered the following >message. > >[root@c1b10a01 qlogic]# >[root@c1b10a01 qlogic]# vconfig add eth0 4095 >ERROR: trying to add VLAN #4095 to IF -:eth0:- error: Invalid argument >[root@c1b10a01 qlogic]# > > The version of linux we are using is: > >[root@c1b10a01 qlogic]# uname -a >Linux c1b10a01 2.4.21-15.ELsmp #1 SMP Thu Apr 22 00:18:24 EDT 2004 i686 i686 >i386 GNU/Linux > > We are not sure what version of vconfig we are using, is there a way to >find this out? > > Any advice on why we cannot create an ip on vlan 4095 would be greatly >appreciated. > >Regards, >Tony Hempinstall. >_______________________________________________ >Vlan mailing list >Vlan@xxxxxxxxxxxx >http://www.lanforge.com/mailman/listinfo/vlan > > > > -- _________________________________________________________________________ | Pierre Rahme | ___ _ ___// _ __ _____ ____ _ | | Passport Product - CDN | | . \| |/ _//\| |..\|_ _|| ___|| | | | Tel (613) 765-4755 | | |\ \ | (//) | / | | | _|_ | |_ | | Fax (613) 765-3165 | |_| \__|\//__/|_|\_\ |_| |____||___| | | prahme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx | // Nortel Networks | |_____________________________|___________________________________________|
