VLAN support in rcNG [PATCH]

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 11:34:45AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> There is little or no complexity depending on how you solve the problem.
> My proposal was to let the kernel support <interface>_<tag> which would
> require no modifications to the rc system.  If you wanted to do it in
> the rc system, the equivalent of "tr . _" would have to be applied to
> the name before using the pseudo associative array lookup hack, that's
> it.  The only difficulty is that you have to do it without anything in
> /usr.
> 
Shell is quite a powerful tool:

foo=xl0_2
echo ${foo%_*}.${foo##*_}

This replaces the last underscore with a dot.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
ru at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer
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