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On 6 February 2014 15:31:58 CET, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>On 2014-02-06, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> On 5 February 2014 15:58:22 CET, Grant Edwards |
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><grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>On 2014-02-05, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>>>> On 4 February 2014 22:27:03 CET, Grant Edwards |
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>>><grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>>>>Are the VLAN configuration docs up to date? |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>>http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=4&chap=3#doc_chap10 |
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>>>>> |
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>>>>>The reason I ask is that the Gentoo docs talk about using vconfig, |
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>>>>>while other distros have dropped vconfig and now use the ip2route |
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>>>>>packages 'ip' command instead: |
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>>>[...] |
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>>>>>Does Gentoo not have issues with udev trying to automagically |
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>rename |
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>>>>>vlan network interfaces as described in the Arch Linux page? |
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>>>> I disabled the udev device name randomizer to ensure I keep the |
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>eth* |
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>>>> names. (I use bonding for the interfaces, don't care about the |
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>names |
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>>>> as long as they all end up in the same bond) |
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>>>Rather than bond them together, I'm going to use them as separate |
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>>>interfaces. I'm looking for a way to have 8 to 16 Ethernet |
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>interfaces |
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>>>on some cheap old desktop machines. Connecting the motherboard |
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>>>Ethernet interface to an external managed VLAN switch seems like the |
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>>>way to go. So I do care what the names are -- we'll see what tricks |
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>>>udev tries to play. |
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>> If you only have 1 interface, disable udevs randomizer and use eth0. |
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>Good idea. The machines currently have two interfaces, but if the |
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>vlan+switch setup works, then I can pull the second NIC out. |
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>> When configuring the vlans you can set the names in the config. |
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>Great! |
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>Thanks. |
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>-- |
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>Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! over in west |
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> at Philadelphia a puppy is |
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> gmail.com vomiting ... |
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If the switch supports bonding, use that as well. |
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I have 4 interfaces in a single bond. |
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On that bond I have the vlans configured. |
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Helps with the throughput as I have multiple machines pulling data from there connected to the same switch. |
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Joost |
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