07-17-2012
I would suggest you compare via HMC the settings of the virtual ethernet adapter of one of your working LPARs with the non-working one.
Both have to be in a VLAN that is set on the SEA on the VIO. Your SEA can have more than 1 Virtual Lan ID. It needs to match at least one VLAN-ID between your LPAR's vAdapter and the VIO/SEA. It could also be, that all your client LPAR vAdapters are in the same VLAN which makes things a tad easier when comparing settings.
Maybe you have accidentally hooked a box for trunking or priority, whatever.
Have no HMC at hand, but here is a link, that shows exactly how things are set up:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/sy...5-virtualvlan/
Last edited by zaxxon; 07-18-2012 at 05:45 AM..
Reason: Rephrasing the whole post to a more proper english
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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD
if_vlan
VLAN(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual VLAN(4)
NAME
vlan -- IEEE 802.1Q VLAN network interface
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:
device vlan
Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):
if_vlan_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The vlan driver demultiplexes frames tagged according to the IEEE 802.1Q standard into logical vlan network interfaces, which allows rout-
ing/bridging between multiple VLANs through a single switch trunk port.
Each vlan interface is created at runtime using interface cloning. This is most easily done with the ifconfig(8) create command or using the
cloned_interfaces variable in rc.conf(5).
To function, a vlan interface must be assigned a parent interface and numeric VLAN tag using ifconfig(8). A single parent can be assigned to
multiple vlan interfaces provided they have different tags. The parent interface is likely to be an Ethernet card connected to a properly
configured switch port. The VLAN tag should match one of those set up in the switched network.
vlan initially assumes the same minimum length for tagged and untagged frames. This mode is selected by setting the sysctl(8) variable
net.link.vlan.soft_pad to 0 (default). However, there are network devices that fail to adjust frame length when it falls below the allowed
minimum due to untagging. Such devices should be able to interoperate with vlan after changing the value of net.link.vlan.soft_pad to 1. In
the latter mode, vlan will pad short frames before tagging them so that their length is not less than the minimum value after untagging by
the non-compliant devices.
HARDWARE
The vlan driver supports efficient operation over parent interfaces that can provide help in processing VLANs. Such interfaces are automati-
cally recognized by their capabilities. Depending on the level of sophistication found in a physical interface, it may do full VLAN process-
ing or just be able to receive and transmit long frames (up to 1522 bytes including an Ethernet header and FCS). The capabilities may be
user-controlled by the respective parameters to ifconfig(8), vlanhwtag, and vlanmtu. However, a physical interface is not obliged to react
to them: It may have either capability enabled permanently without a way to turn it off. The whole issue is very specific to a particular
device and its driver.
At present, these devices are capable of full VLAN processing in hardware: ae(4), age(4), alc(4), ale(4), bce(4), bge(4), bxe(4), cxgb(4),
cxgbe(4), em(4), igb(4), ixgb(4), ixgbe(4), jme(4), msk(4), mxge(4), nxge(4), nge(4), re(4), sge(4), stge(4), ti(4), txp(4), and vge(4).
Other Ethernet interfaces can run VLANs using software emulation in the vlan driver. However, some lack the capability of transmitting and
receiving long frames. Assigning such an interface as the parent to vlan will result in a reduced MTU on the corresponding vlan interfaces.
In the modern Internet, this is likely to cause tcp(4) connectivity problems due to massive, inadequate icmp(4) filtering that breaks the
Path MTU Discovery mechanism.
These interfaces natively support long frames for vlan: axe(4), bfe(4), cas(4), dc(4), et(4), fwe(4), fxp(4), gem(4), hme(4), le(4), nfe(4),
rl(4), sf(4), sis(4), sk(4), ste(4), tl(4), tx(4), vr(4), vte(4), and xl(4).
The vlan driver automatically recognizes devices that natively support long frames for vlan use and calculates the appropriate frame MTU
based on the capabilities of the parent interface. Some other interfaces not listed above may handle long frames, but they do not advertise
this ability. The MTU setting on vlan can be corrected manually if used in conjunction with such a parent interface.
SEE ALSO
ifconfig(8), sysctl(8)
BUGS
No 802.1Q features except VLAN tagging are implemented.
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