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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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