From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 3 15:59: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C4B51569C for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 15:58:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA05659 for freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 4 Nov 1999 00:58:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from olli) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 00:58:55 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199911032358.AAA05659@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: VLAN support in -stable? Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm asking this question on behalf of someone else who cannot read/write the mailing list. I don't know anything about VLANS myself. Somehow, VLANs seem to be only half-supported in -stable. The kernel support is there since 3.2, but the options are missing from ifconfig, and the vlan(4) manpage is missing, too (which is referenced from several other manpages, e.g. ti(4)). Is this intentional? Apparently, it works fine if ifconfig is patched with the appropriate code from current. Is the VLAN code in -stable actually considered "stable"? If "no", then why is the code in -stable since 3.2? If "yes", then why is the ifconfig support missing? I can't believe that someone just forgot to MFC it... (BTW: The VLAN support is needed for a production machine, so running -current is not really an option.) Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18/61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) "In jedem Stück Kohle wartet ein Diamant auf seine Geburt" (Terry Pratchett) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message