Patrick M. Hausen: > > Am 30.07.2025 um 23:20 schrieb Lexi Winter <i...@freebsd.org>: > > the situation i'm talking about is when you have a vlan(4) configured on > > an interface, and the underlying interface (not the vlan interface) is > > also in a bridge, for example: > > But that configuration has always been illegal and known to fail > in weird ways. Just like putting a layer 3 address on a bridge member > interface. > > So I still wonder what the problem seems to be.
it seems like you agree with me that we shouldn't allow this. the problem is that we *do* currently allow this, so what i'm proposing is that we disallow it and produce an error message instead. does that sound reasonable to you or have i misunderstood? > But why of course. It was never supposed to work and getting a decent > error message is better than weird and hard to debug failure scenarios. > > Fail early, fail hard.
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
