Do Sun ethernet NICs and switch products have VLAN support?

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Update Date:	2011-05-26
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Solution 1005717.1 : Do Sun ethernet NICs and switch products have VLAN support?

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Description
Do Sun[TM] ethernet Network Interface Cards (NICs) and switch products have VLAN support?

Steps to Follow
All Sun NICs can operate on VLAN configured switches in a "single port based" VLAN configuration (as any other end hosts on ethernet).
Tagging is not needed if the port only belongs to a one port based VLAN.

VLAN tagging or multiple VLANs per NIC requires network Hardware and Drivers that implement IEEE 802.1q .

The "standard" method to support VLANs is 802.1Q VLAN-Tagging (802.1q is the IEEE standard for VLANs). Sun's older GbE NIC (vge version 1.1) and SunSwitch[TM] (version 1.1) supports 802.1q VLAN-Tagging (64 VLANS maximum, # 0-4094) Sun's newer Gigaswift NIC (ce version 1.0) supports 802.1q VLAN-Tagging (512 VLANS maximum, # 1-4094) and is compatible with switch vendors who support 802.1q.

Solaris [TM] 8,9 or higher VLAN driver packages :

     * SUNWvld  - VLAN utility routines (32-bit) 
     * SUNWvldx - VLAN utility routines (64-bit) 
     * SUNWvldu - VLAN utility headers

Solaris [TM] 10 VLAN driver packages :

     * SUNWvld  - VLAN utility routines (64-bit)
     * SUNWvldu - VLAN utility headers

Sun Products that support 802.1q VLAN-Tagging :
(Note: This is not an exclusive list. It is possiblle that this list may not include some of the latest drivers)

1. Network Interface Cards utilising the vge driver:

     *  X1045A Gigabit v1.1 SBus  running vge-driver rev=2.0.24+
     *  X1044A Gigabit v1.1 PCI   running vge-driver rev=2.0.24+

2. Network Interface Cards utilising the ce driver, e.g:

     *  X1150A 501-5902 GigaSwift Ethernet 1.0 PCI (GBE PCI copper UTP)
     *  X1151A 501-5524 GigaSwift Ethernet 1.0 PCI (GBE PCI Multimode Fiber)
     *  X1261A 501-5523 GigaSwift Ethernet 1.0 cPCI(GBE compact PCI 3U Multimode Fiber)
     *  X2221A 501-5727 FastEthernet 100 Mbit/s dual UTP/SCSI PCI
     *  X4422 501-6635 Dual Gigabit Ethernet UTP/SCSI PCI
     *  X4444 501-6522 QGE (Quad Gigabit Ethernet UTP PCI)

3. Sun Systems utilising the ce driver for the on-board interface(s)

4. Sun Systems utilising the bge driver for the on-board interface(s) (See <Document: 1010687.1> for details)

5. X1046A SunSwitch v1.1 running firmware rev=2.0.22+

6. Sun Secure Application Switches

     *  N2040 541-0202 Layer 2-7 Application Switch, 4xGBE, 40xFE
     *  N2120 541-0203 Layer 2-7 Application Switch, 12xGBE

Refer to the respective Install Guides for details :

     * 805-3949-10  Sun GigabitEthernet SBus Adapter 1.1 User's Guide
     * 805-3951-10  Sun GigabitEthernet PCI Adapter 1.1 User's Guide
     * 806-2989-10  Sun Gigaswift PCI Adapter 1.0 User's Guide
     * 806-3001-10  Sun Gigabit Ethernet 3U Compact PCI Adapter Installation and User's Guide
     * 816-1702-10  Sun Gigaswift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User's Guide
     * 805-3743-10  SunSwitch 1.1 Installation and Configuration Guide
     * 817-7635-10  Sun N2000 Series Release 2.0 System Administration Guide

Sun's FastEthernet cards do not support VLANs (nor ISL) at this time. ISL is Cisco's inter-switch-link protocol (Cisco proprietary) Quad FastEthernet ( qfe ) - no 802.1q Trunking 1.x ( qfe and ge - no 802.1q GigabitEthernet v2.0 ( ge ) - no 802.1q (GEM replaces Gigabit v1.x).

Note: Gigabit 1.x (vge) and SunSwitch is EOL.

RFE reference: CR Bug ID: <SUNBUG: 4197209> RFE to provide the support of VLAN's (IEEE 802.1Q) in GEM

Product
Solaris 9 Operating System
Solaris 8 Operating System
Solaris 7 Operating System
Solaris 10 Operating System

Internal Comments
TSC Product Page:

http://panacea.uk.oracle.com/twiki/bin/view/Netprod/Ethernet

Ethernet, VLAN, Tagging, 802.1Q
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Change History
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