FreeNAS Jails with VLAN

@nfld.republic

Thanks for the notes

Addressing your points:

  1. vnet_default_interface – yes you are correct – you can set it as the VLAN number or leave it at auto. I didn’t find it made much difference in either case.
  2. I’ve read its recommended not to mix tagged and untagged traffic – I’m not certain if this is a hard and fast rule or just a recommendation. Certainly the setup would be simplified if VLAN1 traffic did not need to be tagged. I was hoping others would either help me confirm or deny this “recommendation”
  3. Changing of the MTU is not needed. I’m not sure if this needed to be done in the past, however as of 2019/2020 the MTU does not need to be adjusted

I upgraded over the weeked from 11.2U7 to 11.3RC2. Unfortunately/fortunately??? they changed the Network and VLAN interfaces and the instructions I wrote above are not entirely applicable to the new release. If you want I can add instructions for the 11.3 release – and probably just best to put these instructions within a new thread as I can see the instructions are likely to get buried in this thread.