On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 03:20:02AM +0100, Richard Tector wrote: > Quoting Andrew Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 10:58:08AM +0100, Marcin Jessa wrote: > >>On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 14:42:41 +0700 > >>Vitaliy Ovsyannikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Does Automatic VLANS works? > >>> It is was described in > >>> http://people.freebsd.org/~andre/FreeBSD-5.3-Networking.pdf > >>> > >>> # ifconfig em0.1 inet 10.90.90.200/24 > >>> ifconfig: interface em0.1 does not exist > > > > >While what you have posted is correct, the automatic vlans the original > >poster referred to do exist. 'ifconfig em0.1 create' will create a vlan > >and also set the parent to em0 and tag as 1. > > > >Andrew > > Is it possible to use this method through rc or must I stick with creating > vlan1, vlan2, vlan3, etc and setting the vlanid and vlandev since my attmpts > have yielded no success. > > Eg. > rc.conf: > ifconfig_em0="up vlanhwtag vlanmtu" > ifconfig_em0.100="inet 10.1.2.3/24"
Periods aren't valid in shell variable names so this won't work. Hense the error message below. > goliath# /etc/rc.d/netif start > /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_em0.100=inet 10.1.2.3/24: not found > lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 > .... > > and the interface is never created, with or without: > cloned_interfaces="em0.100" The cloned_interfaces entry is absolutly required. > Any suggestions? Try without invalid expressions in /etc/rc.conf :). -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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