Hi, > On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 04:28:53PM +0000, liam sharp wrote: > > I have got to the bottom of the problem. Thanks very > > much for your advice. The problem was not actually > > with my bridge - to include vlan 1 i simple created > > eth0.1 using vconfig and added it to the bridge. > > Aha. You should've used eth0 instead of eth0.1. > > Since the native VLAN is untagged, it's reachable on eth0. or you can do following an the C-box: conf t int vlan1 shutdown ! interface vlan 23 ip address 1.2.3.4 255.255.255.0 ! end to move your management interfave into Vilan 23 (or any other vlan) the L2-Switches can have only one L3-Interface up and running, so you have to switch off the vlan1 interface. It is recomended not to us vlan1 for management cause vlan1 is the default vlan for all unconfiguered ports. ueli -- "The software said it requires Windows 95 or better, so I installed Linux"