IR809 interface vlan command not working

[Patrick Peters]

I am trying to get the interface vlan command working on a IR809G-LTE-GA-K9 unit.

I am using the commands:

ena

conf t

interface vlan1

The 'interface vlan1' command fails with a statement indicating the command doesn't exist.

Does someone know why this is not working. I have used these commands on many Cisco

devices but somehow it is not working on this unit. The firmware on the unit is 15.5.3M2

Maybe someone can test it for me on his IR809G unit. Maybe with a higher firmware.

Thanks for any help provided.

[Patrick Peters]

I still don't know if the vlan configuration option should be available.

In the mean time i devised a workaround.

I created a bridge IRB

and placed the two gigabit ethernet ports in bridge-group 1.

I also created a loopback device because i found out the device

also lacks the no autostate command.

I gave the BVI device the IP address of what normally the vlan 1

ip address would have been. So for instance 192.168.3.1/24

I created an SLA track with line protocol watch for monitoring the

up/down state of the bvi device. As soon as the BVI device goes down

because of both gigabit ethernet devices become unconnected i run

an eem script for removing the IP address from the BVI and placing

it on the loopback. In this way i am able to keep an active management

IP (for instance 192.168.3.1) active for my VPN tunnel to reach.

I also have a timer script that keeps pinging the device at the other

end of the VPN tunnel in order to automaticly create a VPN tunnel.

It's a bit slow, it takes 8 minutes from power up to VPN tunnel

active. But it's stable so that is what counts.

Good luck to anyone also involved in getting this device to run.