Subject: Re: vlan creation
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/10/2002 13:36:11
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It didn't work for me for some reason...  I'll look elsewhere.

- --Michael

Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com> writes:

> On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 01:31:50AM -0700, Michael Graff wrote:
> 
>  > How are people currently creating vlan interfaces?
>  > 
>  > I wrote a rc.d/vlan script that runs before ipfilter, and basically
>  > does
>  >         ifconfig $vlan create
>  > and if interface and id are specified,
>  >         ifconfig $vlan vlan $id vlanif $int
>  > 
>  > This lets me use vlan interface names in ipf.conf, as well as
>  > using standard ifconfig.vlanX files to configure them.
> 
> No need -- just use /etc/ifconfig.vlan0 or whatever.  This is what I
> do, and it works great:
> 
> /etc/ifconfig.vlan0:
> 
> create
> vlan 2 vlanif wm1
> inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
> 
>  > AFAIK, if ifconfig.vlan0 exists, it isn't actually consulted unless
>  > vlan0 already exists.
> 
> Nonsense :-)  I use this same trick for gif interfaces, as well.  It
> works fine.
> 
>  > Should I check this goop in?
> 
> No.  The existing mechanism works fine.
> 
> -- 
>         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
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