On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Joe MacDonald <[email protected]>wrote:
> [Re: [oe] [meta-networking][PATCH:V3] vlan: Add vlan recipe] On 13.06.27 > (Thu 12:00) Paul Barker wrote: > > > On 27 June 2013 10:51, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Lei Yang <[email protected]> > > > > > > A 802.1q vlan support program,which can be used by virt-test > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Lei Yang <[email protected]> > > > > Just took a quick look at this out of interest. What's using the > > vconfig program once it's installed on the target? > > > > vlan-1.9 was released in 2005 and there hasn't been an update since. > > The ArchWiki suggests that the modern 'ip' command can do what vconfig > > used to do (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VLAN). > > > > If we can avoid a dependency on such legacy code that would probably > > be good. Though I may be missing something as I haven't followed all > > the discussion around this patch and I don't know your use case. > > That's a good point. Seeing something like this hasn't changed since > 2005 is a little concerning, but frankly I'm not completely shocked when > I find out some piece of networking infrastructure has stabilized to the > point where it isn't undergoing much development anymore. Particularly > if it's something not everyone uses (and sometimes even if it is: > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/238858). > > That said, I remember vconfig coming up a bit when I was working with > the CGL workgroup and at the time we'd thought that ip was able to do > everything vconfig was doing, but we were looking at it in the more > narrow context of the requirements definition. > > So I guess my question is the same, is there even a use-case for vlan > now that cannot be addressed by existing, already integrated tools? > Lei? Your comment is specifically saying "can be used by virt-test", > does that mean that virt-test (or something else in meta-virtualization) > requires vconfig to do 802.1q testing or simply that it hasn't been > ported to use other tools (like ip)? > > Yes, it use vconfig not ip, I can post the log fragment in virt-test /usr/bin/qemu-kvm -name 'vm2' -nodefaults -vga std -monitor unix:'/tmp/monitor-humanmonitor1-20120315-015344-Damx',server,nowait -serial unix:'/tmp/serial-20120315-015344-Damx',server,nowait -device ich9-usb-uhci1,id=usb1 -drive file='/root/test.img.qcow2',index=0,if=scsi,cache=none,snapshot=on -device e1000,netdev=idxcDeLE,mac='9a:18:1b:f3:d1:c6',id='id6KMAxt' -netdev tap,id=idxcDeLE,fd=22 -m 1024 -smp 2 -device usb-tablet,id=usb-tablet1,bus=usb1.0 -kernel '/root/kernel.guest.nic' -nographic -append 'root=/dev/sda2 rw console=ttyS0,115200 ip=dhcp' 01:53:45 DEBUG| VM appears to be alive with PID 9021 01:53:45 DEBUG| (monitor humanmonitor1) Sending command 'info cpus' 01:53:45 DEBUG| (monitor humanmonitor1) Response to 'info cpus' 01:53:45 DEBUG| (monitor humanmonitor1) * CPU #0: pc=0x00000000000ca1eb thread_id=9024 01:53:45 DEBUG| (monitor humanmonitor1) CPU #1: pc=0x00000000000f6404 (halted) thread_id=9025 01:53:45 DEBUG| Starting screendump thread 01:53:45 DEBUG| Attempting to log into 'vm1' (timeout 360s) 01:53:45 DEBUG| No DHCP lease for MAC 9a:18:1b:f3:76:58 01:54:04 DEBUG| (address cache) DHCP lease OK: 00:15:17:bb:5e:88 --> 128.224.165.205 01:54:21 DEBUG| (address cache) DHCP lease OK: 9a:18:1b:f3:76:58 --> 128.224.165.252 01:54:21 DEBUG| Login command: 'ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o PreferredAuthentications=password -p 22 [email protected]' 01:54:23 INFO | Logged in 01:54:23 DEBUG| Sending command: ifconfig -a 01:54:23 DEBUG| Sending command: dd if=/dev/urandom of=file bs=1024k count=10 01:54:24 DEBUG| Sending command: echo $? 01:54:25 DEBUG| Sending command: md5sum file 01:54:25 DEBUG| Sending command: echo $? 01:54:25 DEBUG| Sending command: /etc/init.d/iptables stop 01:54:25 DEBUG| Sending command: modprobe 8021q 01:54:25 DEBUG| Sending command: echo $? 01:54:25 DEBUG| Attempting to log into 'vm2' (timeout 360s) 01:54:25 DEBUG| No DHCP lease for MAC 9a:18:1b:f3:d1:c6 01:54:29 DEBUG| (address cache) DHCP lease OK: 9a:18:1b:f3:d1:c6 --> 128.224.165.247 01:54:29 DEBUG| Login command: 'ssh -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o PreferredAuthentications=password -p 22 [email protected]' 01:54:31 INFO | Logged in 01:54:31 DEBUG| Sending command: ifconfig -a 01:54:31 DEBUG| Sending command: dd if=/dev/urandom of=file bs=1024k count=10 01:54:33 DEBUG| Sending command: echo $? 01:54:33 DEBUG| Sending command: md5sum file 01:54:33 DEBUG| Sending command: echo $? 01:54:33 DEBUG| Sending command: /etc/init.d/iptables stop 01:54:33 DEBUG| Sending command: modprobe 8021q 01:54:33 DEBUG| Sending command: echo $? 01:54:34 DEBUG| Sending command: vconfig add eth0 1 01:54:34 DEBUG| Sending command: echo $? 01:54:34 DEBUG| Sending command: ifconfig eth0.1 192.168.1.1 01:54:34 DEBUG| Sending command: echo $? 01:54:34 DEBUG| Sending command: vconfig add eth0 2 01:54:34 DEBUG| Sending command: echo $? 01:54:34 DEBUG| Sending command: ifconfig eth0.2 192.168.2.1 01:54:34 DEBUG| Sending command: echo $? 01:54:34 DEBUG| Sending command: vconfig add eth0 3 > -- > -Joe MacDonald. > :wq > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel > > _______________________________________________ Openembedded-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel
