[gentoo-user] Re: Is VLAN configuration manual section up to date?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2014-02-06, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
> On 5 February 2014 15:58:22 CET, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
>>On 2014-02-05, J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
>>> On 4 February 2014 22:27:03 CET, Grant Edwards
>><grant.b.edwards@×××××.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.

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