Hi. Regarding "automatic vlan creation"

[Artis Caune]

2009/10/28 Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org>:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 03:18:41PM +0100, Sebastian Hyrwall wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Now that FreeBSD has support for writing  , cloned_interfaces="em0.100"
>> instead of having to create for example a vlan0 and then specify vlandev
>> etc in ifconfig. What is the correct ifconfig-line in rc.conf for this?
>>
>> ifconfig_em0.100="" or ifconfig_em0_100="" does not work.
>
> It should be ifconfig_em0_100.

btw, wouldn't it be nice not to bother with loader.conf when using
<device>.<vlan> syntax?
This patch will load if_vlan automatically in this case:




--- sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.c	2009-10-26 14:11:16 +0000
+++ sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.c	2009-10-28 21:43:07 +0000
@@ -998,6 +998,10 @@
 			break;
 		}

+	/* try to load vlan module if interface name is device.vlan_id */
+	if (index(name, '.') != NULL)
+		strlcpy(ifname, "vlan", sizeof(ifname));
+
 	/* turn interface and unit into module name */
 	strcpy(ifkind, "if_");
 	strlcpy(ifkind + MOD_PREFIX_LEN, ifname,





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Artis Caune

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