Woops...Sorry. Pilot error...I guess Im not seeing things right. Sorry! and thanks.

-Santosh
> 
> 
> See my previous posting.  You're missing the 'create' keyword.
> You can do it in one step as in my previous posting or break it
> up as below:
> 
> # ifconfig vlan0 create
> # ifconfig vlan0 vlan 512 vlanif en0
> 
> ...
> 
> # ifconfig vlan0 destroy
> 
> -seanb
> 
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 04:28:39PM -0400, Santosh Kumar wrote:
> > Hi Sean,
> > 
> > Im not sure how that would work. I read the documentation and I understand 
> that the number associated with the "vlan" parameter would set up the physical
>  interface.
> > 
> >  Im not sure if the command
> > 
> > ifconfig vlan0 vlan 512 vlanif en0 (in my case) would work for this. I 
> actually tried the command  but got:
> > 
> > ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS vlan0: No such device of address.
> > 
> > Here's the output of my ifconfig
> > 
> > en0: flags=8043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >         address: 00:1f:aa:ff:ff:e0
> > en1: flags=802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
> >         address: 00:1f:aa:ff:ff:e1
> > en2: flags=802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
> >         address: 00:1f:aa:ff:ff:e2
> > en3: flags=802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
> >         address: 00:1f:aa:ff:ff:e3
> > en4: flags=802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
> >         address: 00:1f:aa:ff:ff:e4
> > en5: flags=802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
> >         address: 00:1f:aa:ff:ff:e5
> > en6: flags=802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
> >         address: 00:1f:aa:ff:ff:e6
> > en7: flags=802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
> >         address: 00:1f:aa:ff:ff:e7
> > en8: flags=802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
> >         address: 00:1f:aa:ff:ff:e8
> > en9: flags=802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
> >         address: 00:1f:aa:ff:ff:e9
> > en10: flags=802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
> >         address: 00:1f:aa:ff:ff:ea
> > en11: flags=802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
> >         address: 00:1f:aa:ff:ff:eb
> > en12: flags=802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
> >         address: 00:1f:aa:ff:ff:ec
> > en13: flags=802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX> mtu 1500
> >         address: 00:1f:aa:ff:ff:ed
> > 
> > I want to create a vlan interface for en0 here. I even looked at the 
> ifconfig code and it looks like the interface name has to be starting with "
> vlan". How do I get such an interface?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Santosh
> >   
> > > On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 04:02:07PM -0400, Santosh Kumar wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > I have a requirement for creating a vlan interface for existing physcial
>  
> > > ethernet interfaces. I tried the following command:
> > > > 
> > > > ifconfig en0 vlan 512 vlanif en0.512
> > > > 
> > > > The response was:
> > > > 
> > > > ifconfig: valid only with vlan(4) interfaces.
> > > > 
> > > > How do I go about creating an VLAN interfaces?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > See 'use ifconfig'
> > > 
> > > # ifconfig vlan0 create vlan 1234 vlanif wm0
> > >                                          ^^^
> > >                                           |
> > >                    Where this is the physical interface.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -seanb
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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