NG nodes on cisco-style vlan interfaces

Ryan Stone rysto32 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 16:14:44 UTC 2012


Unfortunately netgraph doesn't allow dots in node names (or hook names),
because that would cause an ambiguity in parsing netgraph paths.

You can name an unnamed node by running "ngctl [nodeid]: name", but of
course the name must be both valid and unique.


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Nikolay Nevzorov <nevzorovn at gmail.com>wrote:

> Create vlan interface in cisco-style, eg vlan 3 on fxp0 is fxp0.3, but in
> ngctl list i can't find node named fxp0.3. But i can see new <unnamed>
> ethernet node
> What cause this problem?  Dot in the name of interface? How can i rename
> unnamed node to use it?
>
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> Nikolay Nevzorov
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