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
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