On 5 February 2014 15:58:22 CET, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 2014-02-05, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: >> On 4 February 2014 22:27:03 CET, Grant Edwards ><grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>>Are the VLAN configuration docs up to date? >>> >>>http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=3#doc_chap10 >>> >>>The reason I ask is that the Gentoo docs talk about using vconfig, >>>while other distros have dropped vconfig and now use the ip2route >>>packages 'ip' command instead: >[...] >>>Does Gentoo not have issues with udev trying to automagically rename >>>vlan network interfaces as described in the Arch Linux page? > >> I disabled the udev device name randomizer to ensure I keep the eth* >> names. (I use bonding for the interfaces, don't care about the names >> as long as they all end up in the same bond) > >Rather than bond them together, I'm going to use them as separate >interfaces. I'm looking for a way to have 8 to 16 Ethernet interfaces >on some cheap old desktop machines. Connecting the motherboard >Ethernet interface to an external managed VLAN switch seems like the >way to go. So I do care what the names are -- we'll see what tricks >udev tries to play.
If you only have 1 interface, disable udevs randomizer and use eth0. When configuring the vlans you can set the names in the config. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
