Creating a VLAN interface
VLANs are isolated broadcast domains that run over a single physical network. They allow you to segment a local network and also to "stretch" a LAN over multiple physical locations. Most enterprises implement this on their network switching environment, but in some cases, the tagged VLANs reach your server.
Getting ready
In order to configure a VLAN, we need an established network connection on the local network interface.
How to do it…
For the sake of ease, our physical network interface is called eth0
. The VLAN's ID is 1, and the IPv4 address is 10.0.0.2
, with a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0
and a default gateway of 10.0.0.1
.
Creating the VLAN connection with nmcli
With nmcli
, we need to first create the connection and then activate ...
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