Monday, February 2, 2015

Brocade Switch: "error - port ethe X/X/X are not member of default vlan"

I really wish that Brocade would reword this message.  You know, when you want to add a port to a vlan, but it complains with this message: "error - port ethe X/X/X are not member of default vlan"
If you get this message, then you need to find what vlan the port you are trying to configure is already in.  Because, as the message states, its not in the default vlan.  Maybe it should say: "error - port ethe X/X/X is not a member of the default vlan, so you need to find what vlan its in"
Either way, its already configured somewhere, so find it, take it out of the vlan, and put it where you want it to be.

7 comments:

  1. God bless you, this was driving me dunts

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  2. Brocade makes good hardware but their CLI is the worst.

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    1. It probably just takes some getting used to.

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  3. I love that I keep coming back to this article year after year because this issue still gets me from time to time. Thanks again.

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  4. same problem, but i want to add a tagged vlan to the untagged port. make a simply dot1q trunk.

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  5. I found the port in question but when I try to do a untag eth x/x/x I keep getting "port's are already a member of VLAN XXX" if I do tag it's the same error. Or am I doing this wrong?

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