Hi,

> Am 30.07.2025 um 23:51 schrieb Lexi Winter <i...@freebsd.org>:
> 
> 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?

Absolutely. We should prohibit configurations that were never supported
in the first place. Repeating my "fail early, fail hard" argument.

I am not debating you in this thread ;-)

Kind regards,
Patrick
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