Re: Usling vlan(4) without an actual lan behind it

2011-09-21 Thread Steve Polyack
On 09/21/2011 01:34 PM, Mike Andrews wrote: On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Pete French wrote: 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"? It can be anything really - I was looking for a "generic" interf

Re: Usling vlan(4) without an actual lan behind it

2011-09-21 Thread Mike Andrews
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011, Pete French wrote: 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"? It can be anything really - I was looking for a "generic" interface I can configure with IP addresses. But add

Re: Usling vlan(4) without an actual lan behind it

2011-09-19 Thread David Magda
On Mon, September 19, 2011 08:45, Pete French wrote: >> 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"? > > It can be anything really - I was looking for a "generic" interface > I can configure wit

Re: Usling vlan(4) without an actual lan behind it

2011-09-19 Thread Pete French
> 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"? It can be anything really - I was looking for a "generic" interface I can configure with IP addresses. But adding real addresses to loopback interface

Re: Usling vlan(4) without an actual lan behind it

2011-09-19 Thread David Magda
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 multi