On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Garrett D'Amore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Gerdts wrote: >> This case isn't open. Can you give a quick summary of what the "vlan >> hack" is so that I can understand if/how it will affect how I use >> vlans? If it's easier to just open it, that is fine too. > > using a PPA ( the number after the driver name, e.g. qfe1000) > 1000, the > VLAN is taken to be the PPA / 1000, and the instance number of the driver is > taken to be the PPA % 1000. > > Its fairly arbitrary. It lets you use vlan 3 for qfe port 4 as something > like ifconfig qfe3004 plumb
It's good to know that those that implemented it feel like it was a hack too. Now if those that decided on the name "e1000g" were users of the vlan hack and virtual interfaces. Surely they wouldn't have thought that e1000g101001:10 was a good idea. :) Thanks for the clarification! -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
