Peter Memishian wrote: > > > My take: no. The whole notion of creating links on-demand has a lot of > > > problems (as you've pointed out). If the administrator really wants to > > > use VLAN hack names and link properties, they can just explicitly create > > > a VLAN hack link then set its link properties. > > > > > But today one can do that without problem, and I have a case to prove the > > weirdness of this problem: > > Seems like an implementation artifact. > I agree. But it does look strange and I don't know how to solve this.
> Does anything depend on the functionality? Is it documented to work? > Based on the discussion with DongHai, I don't think there is anything depends on this. But the zone property is documented in the manpage of dladm(1M), not the part that it creates the VLAN implicitly though. - Cathy
