kern/114875: bugs in vlans

[Brooks Davis]

The following reply was made to PR kern/114875; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org>
To: Andrej Zverev <az at freebsd.org>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/114875: bugs in vlans
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:17:12 -0500

 On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 12:32:43AM +0400, Andrej Zverev wrote:
 > >Description:
 > 	While createing and deleting VLANs no all depends
 > 	(ip address, vlandev, VID) cleared.
 > 	
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > 	Just follow this step (don't try without rc.conf)
 > 	1. put intro rc.conf
 > 		cloned_interfaces="vlan10"
 > 		ifconfig_vlan10="vlan 10 vlandev bge0 192.168.10.1/24 up"
 > 	2. reboot system
 > 	3. check if vlan present
 > 	4. type ifconfig vlan10 destroy
 > 	5. check if vlan no more exists
 
 Please comment out the ifconfig_vlan10 variable in rc.conf before the
 next step and repeat.
 
 > 	6. type ifconfig vlan10 create
 
 You should now have an unconfigured vlan.
 
 > 	7. type ifconfog vlan10 and see previous vlandev, VID 
 
 What you are seeing is that creating of an interface is seen by devd and
 if there is an appropriate ifconfig_<if> variable it will be used due to
 the call to pccard_ether.
 
 -- Brooks