Re: Configuring multiple IP addresses on VLAN interface using ifupdown

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Steffen Dettmer
<steffen.dettmer@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> wrote:


>>> allow-auto eth0.9
>>> iface eth0.9 inet static
>>>   address 192.168.1.119
>>>   netmask 255.255.255.0
>>>   gateway 192.168.1.1
>>>   post-up ip address add 192.168.1.199/24 dev eth0.9
>>>
>>> Is the example above correct? Does it work for you? Could your
>>> machine be boot so quickly that it might not be visible without
>>> adding --noclear to /etc/inittab for tty1 getty?
>>
>> I tested once. I just took down the network so that only "lo" was
>> defined and then brought it up with what I'd posted.
>
> I retested after "dpkg -P vlan", booted a couple of times and got
> no single error. Seems this mean to use VLAN someone should better
> not install package vlan... :-)

It's theoretically deprecated like net-tools...


> Good spot about the non-NETLINK errors!! Thanks so much, I completely
> missed that!
>
> So maybe there is just some issue about some vconfig
> backward-compatiblity in ifup?
>
> Have a great weekend, Tom and all the list!

Thanks. You too.