On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 12:20:41PM +0100, Richard Tector wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > >On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 03:20:02AM +0100, Richard Tector wrote: > > > >>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. > > > Fair enough. > > I noticed you made a way to use the automatic vlan method in rev 1.169 > of network.subr. Are there any plans to MFC this to RELENG_6? It's a > useful ability to have and makes creating vlans at startup much simpler > and cleaner.
Yes, after 6.1 ships. It's way to late to be mucking around in the interface config scripts for 6.1-RELEASE. -- 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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