On 2014-02-05, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > On 4 February 2014 22:27:03 CET, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >>Are the VLAN configuration docs up to date? >> >>http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=3#doc_chap10 >> >>The reason I ask is that the Gentoo docs talk about using vconfig, >>while other distros have dropped vconfig and now use the ip2route >>packages 'ip' command instead: [...] >>Does Gentoo not have issues with udev trying to automagically rename >>vlan network interfaces as described in the Arch Linux page?
> I disabled the udev device name randomizer to ensure I keep the eth* > names. (I use bonding for the interfaces, don't care about the names > as long as they all end up in the same bond) Rather than bond them together, I'm going to use them as separate interfaces. I'm looking for a way to have 8 to 16 Ethernet interfaces on some cheap old desktop machines. Connecting the motherboard Ethernet interface to an external managed VLAN switch seems like the way to go. So I do care what the names are -- we'll see what tricks udev tries to play. > For the VLANs, I used the examples in the net.example file in the > document folder. It's somewhere in /usr/doc/net..../ (I think. No > access to a gentoo install atm) Ah, found it: /usr/share/doc/netifrc-0.1/net.example.bz2 > I think the documentation you pointed at is out-of-date as I don't > have to do it like that. Thanks, that's what I suspected. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! ... I want FORTY-TWO at TRYNEL FLOATATION SYSTEMS gmail.com installed within SIX AND A HALF HOURS!!!