On Fri, Dec 14, 2007, Rene Mayrhofer wrote: > I have been using a small extension for the if-pre-up.d/vlan script > for quite some time for Gibraltar firewall. This patch allows to use > arbitrary interface names for the VLAN interfaces such as "dmz.0" and > "external.1" as long as the ".<number>" extension is used (mostly so > that the if-post-down.d/vlan script can remove it again). There are no > problems whatsoever in practice, and we have been using a script like > that on many in-production boxes so far. > > Please consider applying this for the next release.
Looking at what it does, I think it doesn't need to be specific to vlan. Couldn't you as well rename any interface with a "name" parameter? -- Loïc Minier
