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From: Pete French <petefrench@ingresso.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:02:14 +0100
Subject: Usling vlan(4) without an actual lan behind it
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Can anyone see any problem is doing this ? i.e. creating a vlan interface
which doesnt correspond to any physical interface, just as a place to hang IP
addresses. I am trying to work around a problem with carp and ndp when
there are multiple IPv6 addresses bound to it.

cheers,

-pete.