Re: status of VLAN support in Debian/Linux in general
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 08:47, Jonathan G - Mailing Lists wrote:
> Comment in line
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> Andreas John wrote:
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> > 4.) Hint: If you setup VLAN with /etc/network/interfaces please keep in
> > mind that the physical interface has to be up in order to create VLANs
> > on it, i.e. you have to set somme (dummy?) IP to ethX in order to create
> > ethX.VID.
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> You'd better leave up but unconfigured the physical interface in order
> to avoid further routing trouble.
I got around this by giving the interface a loopback address. Like
Andreas said, you need to give it something in order for the ethx.VID to
be created.
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> >
> > HTH,
> > Andreas
> >
>
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> j
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