Re: vlans

[Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de>]

Bonno Bloksma <b.bloksma@tio.nl> wrote:
> 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.

The vlan package and its if-*.d-scripts are still in Wheezy and should
be operational, so vlan-raw-device should work as shown, _if_ you
install the package. It still ships vconfig and does not use the generic
"ip link" method, but should work nontheless.

Grüße,
Sven.

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