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Subject: Re: Usling vlan(4) without an actual lan behind it
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On Mon, September 19, 2011 08:02, Pete French wrote:
> 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.

Does it specifically have to be a vlan(4), or can you perhaps add another
address to lo(4), or perhaps create a "lo1" in addition to the "lo0"?