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Re: vlan support en* or br*?



On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 14:28 +0100, Stephan Seitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 04:07:40AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 12:46 +0900, Seyeong Kim wrote:
> > > I checked vlan source http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint
> > > /vlan.git/
> > > debian/network/if-pre-up.d/vlan, if-post-up.d/vlan …
> > > and not support en* or br* which are quite common nowadays.
> > > need to file a bug or just customize and use it myself?
> > The vlan package is obsolete.  You could perhaps replace it with
> > something based on iproute.
> 
> I don’t think that the vlan package is obsolete. It provides you with
> stanzas for your /etc/network/interfaces to easily configure vlan 
> interfaces.

As long as you want to follow certain naming conventions.

> You can do this with the ip command but you have to do everything 
> manually.
[...]

That's why I was suggesting a replacement package that would provide
similar functionality but using 'ip' so not subject to the limitations
of the vlan ioctl interface.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
It is easier to write an incorrect program than to understand a correct one.

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