Bug#433568: add vlan support
On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 03:11:03PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2016 13:49:57 +0100 Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You don't need vlan; iproute2's ip can do it:
> >
> > ip link add link eth0 name vlan9 type vlan id 9
> > or
> > ip link add link eth0 name eth0.9 type vlan id 9
> >
> >
>
> I know that. vlan package is needed for the ifupdown hooks to parse
> vlan stanza from /etc/network/interfaces and hence configure vlan id.
> Or am I missing something?
Currently the vlan package provides such hooks. No reason one could
not add such hooks to the iproute2 package or even extend ifupdown to
handle it itself. Using the vlan package is certainly not efficient
compared to using the ip command for the job. This is also true for
bridge-utils as far as I know, where I think iproute2 can also completely
replace that.
--
Len Sorensen
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