Hi list, (sorry for the possible resend, I used the wrong from address)
I am trying to get STP to work with (to start with) one openbsd firewall / gateway and two switches to the same subnet for failover. Let me draw: ----------------------------------- | Internet | ----------------------------------- | --------------------------- | | | OpenBSD GW | | | --------------------------- / \ -------------- ------------------ | SW 1 | | SW 2 | |(stp root) | | (stp fallback) | -------------- ------------------ \ / \ / -------------------- | subnet | -------------------- The openbsd box should act as an IP gateway for the subnet. I bridged two NICS, one goes into sw1, the other into sw2. I also want to give this bridge an IP address, but that is not possible. So I - tried to set a vlan on the bridge, (vlandev bridge0), but this is not possible ( SIOCSETVLAN: Protocol not supported). The switches see each other and root sw is elected. - tried to set a failover trunk on the bridge member interfaces and set the vlan on that. Packets are being forwarded then, but STP does not work (switches don't see each other) How should I go about this? Thanks, Arjen.