vlans and cloning
Sam Leffler
sam at errno.com
Sun Jul 9 19:12:19 UTC 2006
I committed the revised netif cloning api so you can now specify
parameters when cloning. I also modified the vlan code to use this
mechanism so doing something like:
ifconfig vlan create vlan 1 vlandev em0
causes a single request to clone a vlan together with the tag+parent
device parameters (i.e. and no subsequent SIOCSETVLAN request).
Given the above do we still need to support setting vlan tag+device
separately or can we just require everything be specified when doing the
clone operation? This would change the user api but otherwise I can see
no reason for continuing to support the old mechanism where you do:
ifconfig vlan create
ifconfig vlan0 vlan 1 vlandev em0
Anyone _against_ nuking the above?
Sam
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