CONFIGURE 802.1Q VLAN TAGGING USING THE COMMAND LINE
In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, the
8021q
module is loaded by default. If necessary, you can make sure that the module is loaded by issuing the following command as root
:
~]# modprobe --first-time 8021q
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert '8021q': Module already in kernel
To display information about the module, issue the following command:
~]$ modinfo 8021q
See the modprobe(8)
man page for more command options.
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Configure the parent interface in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX
, where X is a unique number corresponding to a specific interface, as follows:DEVICE=ethX TYPE=Ethernet BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT=yes
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Configure the VLAN interface configuration in the
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
directory. The configuration file name should be the parent interface plus a.
character plus the VLAN ID number. For example, if the VLAN ID is 192, and the parent interface is eth0, then the configuration file name should beifcfg-eth0.192
:DEVICE=ethX.192 BOOTPROTO=none ONBOOT=yes IPADDR=192.168.1.1 PREFIX=24 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 VLAN=yes
If there is a need to configure a second VLAN, with for example, VLAN ID 193, on the same interface, eth0, add a new file with the nameeth0.193
with the VLAN configuration details. -
Restart the networking service in order for the changes to take effect. As
root
issue the following command:~]#
systemctl restart network
To create an 802.1Q VLAN interface on Ethernet interface eth0, with name VLAN8 and ID
8
, issue a command as root
as follows:
~]# ip link add link eth0 name eth0.8 type vlan id 8
To view the VLAN, issue the following command:
~]$ ip -d link show eth0.8
4: eth0.8@eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP mode DEFAULT
link/ether 52:54:00:ce:5f:6c brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff promiscuity 0
vlan protocol 802.1Q id 8 <REORDER_HDR>
Note that the ip utility interprets the VLAN ID as a hexadecimal value if it is preceded by
0x
and as an octal value if it has a leading 0
. This means that in order to assign a VLAN ID with a decimal value of 22
, you must not add any leading zeros.To remove the VLAN, issue a command as
root
as follows:
~]# ip link delete eth0.8
NOTE
VLAN interfaces created using ip commands at the command prompt will be lost if the system is shutdown or restarted. To configure VLAN interfaces to be persistent after a system restart, use
ifcfg
files. See Section 7.4.1, “Setting Up 802.1Q VLAN Tagging Using ifcfg Files”