RE: vlans

[Bonno Bloksma <b.bloksma@tio.nl>]

Hi Sven,

>> What I do NOT want is to have names like eth0.60 for vlan.60 incoming 
>> on interface eth0. Because if I decide it would be better to have 
>> vlan60 come in on eth1 I would have to rename all (firewall, etc.) 
>> scripts that refer to that name.

>> What I would like to have is names like eth0, eth1, eth2, vlan-staff, 
>> vlan-internet, etc.

> All answers you seek are provided in vlan-interfaces(5). Example:
> 
> iface vlan60 inet static
>   vlan-raw-device eth0
>   address 192.168.1.1
>   netmask 255.255.255.0
>

According to the wiki page http://wiki.defcon.no/guides/debian/vlan the vlan-raw-device stanza will be gone in Wheezy. That means the setup as you showed, and that I intended to use, is not possible.

Bonno Bloksma