On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 09:51:11AM +0100, Jasper Capel wrote:
> Andy Gospodarek wrote:
> > I was looking over the contents of post_install_network_config in the
> > devel branch of cobbler and it looks pretty good.  The idea that one
> > wants to setup VLANs or bonding as part of the post-install process is a
> > good one.
> > 
> > Anyway, there are a few changes that I'd propose though for RHEL/Centos5
> > and Fedora and several that would be needed to make RHEL/Centos4 work
> > correctly.
> > 
> > For RHEL/Centos5 and Fedora the bonding parameter 'max_bonds' in
> > modprobe.conf isn't really needed, so it can be dropped.
> *snip*
> 
> These changes look good to me, thanks for the feedback. :)
> > 
> > In general the VLAN stuff looks good too, but it would be hard to know
> > for sure without testing it pretty well.
> > 
> > Long term it would be great to support VLANs on bonded interfaces, but
> > there are not a bunch of people doing that right now (and I didn't write
> > any patches, so I should probably shutup :), so it's probably not a
> > priority.
> > 
> 
> I'm not exactly sure what you mean here, it was always my intention to 
> support VLANs on bonding devices (and by request, also bonding several 
> VLAN devices together).
> Creating a device named bond0.10 should add VLAN 10 to bond0. If this 
> stopped working, that's a defect. ;)
> 

I actually haven't tested it yet, but I would have been surprised from
the code flow that it worked.  I actually went back and looked again and
as long as bond0 is created before bond0.10 it looks like it should be
fine.  Hopefully I'll get a chance to give this a try soon to know for
sure.
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