On 6 February 2014 15:31:58 CET, Grant Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: >On 2014-02-06, J. Roeleveld <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 5 February 2014 15:58:22 CET, Grant Edwards ><[email protected]> wrote: >>>On 2014-02-05, J. Roeleveld <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On 4 February 2014 22:27:03 CET, Grant Edwards >>><[email protected]> 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 ...
If the switch supports bonding, use that as well. I have 4 interfaces in a single bond. On that bond I have the vlans configured. Helps with the throughput as I have multiple machines pulling data from there connected to the same switch. -- Joost -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
