Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 10:52:33 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> To: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vlans and cloning Message-ID: <44B21551.5050002@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <44B15511.206@errno.com> References: <44B15511.206@errno.com>
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Sam Leffler wrote: > I committed the revised netif cloning api so you can now specify > parameters when cloning. I also modified the vlan code to use this > mechanism so doing something like: > > ifconfig vlan create vlan 1 vlandev em0 > > causes a single request to clone a vlan together with the tag+parent > device parameters (i.e. and no subsequent SIOCSETVLAN request). > > Given the above do we still need to support setting vlan tag+device > separately or can we just require everything be specified when doing the > clone operation? This would change the user api but otherwise I can see > no reason for continuing to support the old mechanism where you do: > > ifconfig vlan create > ifconfig vlan0 vlan 1 vlandev em0 /me wants to do: "ifconfig em0.1 inet 192.168.2.2/24" Even simpler. And yes, this works already but only if if_vlan.ko was loaded before or compiled into the kernel. It doesn't do auto- load. -- Andre
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