Originally posted by: MichaelAM
To use the VLAN option you also need to configure the hypervisor (as virtual ethernet switch) and add the VLAN identifer that you want to use.
However, what is probably easier, is to have one partition with the physical adapter, and just use that adapter as is. With the managed system you create one virtual adapter using a different PVID in the other clients - not because it is needed, but because it makes documentation a bit easier.
The partition with two adapters (one physical, one virtual) is not bridging the virtual adapters to the physical adapter (as a VIO server can, as a SEA or Shared Ethernet Adapter). Instead, this partition can route. However, this will require that the partitions without a physical adapter will need to be in a separate IP network, or the routing will not work for any system in the same network but accessible only via the physical network, and v.v.
In other words, you can probably accomplish what you want to do without any usage of IEEE 802.Q, and regardless of using VLAN or not, you will need multiple IP networks when you route rather than bridge the virtual adapters to the physical adapters.
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