We have lots of servers with a similar setup (i.e. tagged vlans and no ip on eth0) and this works just fine. What is the actual vlan configuration on your switchport? Regards, Dennis On 24.01.2015 01:34, Boris Epstein wrote: > Steve, > > Thanks, makes sense. > > I just don't see why I have to effectively waste an extra IP address to get > my connection established. > > Boris. > > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:16 PM, Stephen Harris <lists at spuddy.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 07:10:57PM -0500, Boris Epstein wrote: >> >>> This makes two of us. I've done everything as you have described and it >>> simply does not work. >> >> Are you actually seeing VLAN tagged traffic, or is the cisco switch >> just providing a normal stream? >> >> At work we have hundreds of VLANs, but the servers don't get configured >> for this; we just configure them as normal; ie eth0. The network >> infrastructure does the VLAN decoding, the server doesn't have to. >> >> Try configuring the machine as if it was a real LAN and forget about >> the VLAN. >> >> If that doesn't work then what does 'tcpdump -i eth0' show you? >> >> -- >> >> rgds >> Stephen >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >