On 2014-02-06, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > 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.
Good idea. The machines currently have two interfaces, but if the vlan+switch setup works, then I can pull the second NIC out. > When configuring the vlans you can set the names in the config. Great! Thanks. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! over in west at Philadelphia a puppy is gmail.com vomiting ...