Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:05:09 +0400 From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> To: Justas Jakubauskas <justas@vusa.lt> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "ifconfig -vlandev" syntax Message-ID: <20050922110509.GA16325@comp.chem.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <53380.81.7.76.219.1127386461.squirrel@mail.vusa.lt> References: <20050922104104.GA13539@comp.chem.msu.su> <53380.81.7.76.219.1127386461.squirrel@mail.vusa.lt>
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:54:21PM +0300, Justas Jakubauskas wrote: > > > -vlandev takes a useless argument (vlan(4) cannot attach to more > > than one parent anyway) while, e.g., -carpdev doesn't need one. > > And how system should know, to which device attach your vlan ? "-vlandev" is for _detaching_ a vlan interface from its parent. The option is used more often than it could because one cannot move a vlan interface to another parent or VLAN tag w/o detaching it first. -- Yar
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