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 -- punkt.de GmbH Patrick M. Hausen .infrastructure Sophienstr. 187 76185 Karlsruhe Tel. +49 721 9109500 https://infrastructure.punkt.de i...@punkt.de AG Mannheim 108285 Geschäftsführer: Daniel Lienert, Fabian Stein