vlans and cloning

Dmitry Pryanishnikov dmitry at atlantis.dp.ua
Mon Jul 10 07:45:10 UTC 2006


Hello!

On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Sam Leffler wrote:
> 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?

  Do you mean that you're going to nuke

ifconfig vlan create

but not

ifconfig vlan0 create

? As I understand the flow of /etc/rc processing, support of the

ifconfig vlan0 create
ifconfig vlan0 vlan 1 vlandev em0

sequence is required for now. Also, I thing it's perfectly correct to have

cloned_interfaces="vlan30"

while NOT having 'ifconfig_vlan30' assignment - system administrator could 
just reserve a spare interface w/o assigning it's parameters. So I think
that possibility of the specific device cloning w/o arguments, e.g.,

ifconfig vlan30 create

should be preserved.

Sincerely, Dmitry
-- 
Atlantis ISP, System Administrator
e-mail:  dmitry at atlantis.dp.ua
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