


Unfortunately, this didn’t change the situation at all.Īccording to Gigabyte’s website as well as Realtek’s product page, the solution supports VLAN tagging – so what gives? Realtek Ethernet Diagnostic Utility I checked the usual culprits – namely updating the driver to the latest version on Realtek’s website.

The problem was that the driver property pages had no VLAN entry! The Gigabyte 890FXA-UD7 uses a dual GbE LAN solution based around the Realtek RTL8111D solution. Owing to a new project, I suddenly had to re-commission my former desktop. While I had a late-model Intel NIC on my main desktop which happily supports Intel Advanced Networking Services, allowing me to participate in multiple VLANs at the same time through a number of virtual adapters, I noticed some other NICs only had one VLAN ID entry within their advanced driver properties. While it was great, I made a comment that simultaneous VLAN operation might not be possible under Windows depending on the NIC involved. A while ago, I wrote about the wonders of having multiple VLANs at home, operating in a mixed “hybrid” access model.
