Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 08:25:27 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vlans and cloning Message-ID: <44B27167.8090406@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <44B21551.5050002@freebsd.org> References: <44B15511.206@errno.com> <44B21551.5050002@freebsd.org>
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Andre Oppermann wrote: > Sam Leffler wrote: >> I committed the revised netif cloning api so you can now specify >> parameters when cloning. I also modified the vlan code to use this >> mechanism so doing something like: >> >> ifconfig vlan create vlan 1 vlandev em0 >> >> causes a single request to clone a vlan together with the tag+parent >> device parameters (i.e. and no subsequent SIOCSETVLAN request). >> >> Given the above do we still need to support setting vlan tag+device >> separately or can we just require everything be specified when doing the >> 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 > > /me wants to do: > > "ifconfig em0.1 inet 192.168.2.2/24" That can still be done and is just different syntax to ifconfig. > > Even simpler. And yes, this works already but only if if_vlan.ko > was loaded before or compiled into the kernel. It doesn't do auto- > load. >
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