Init & network subinterfaces

TheRealKinetix · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2

Hello,

Have been grepping docs/forums/google for how gentoo deals with this, and after looking through the 'net.lo' init script, I'm not so sure that it can.

What I need to be able to do is configure & start a network subinterface (vlanned, so, for example, eth0.1000) without doing a full 'net.eth0 restart'.

So, the interface is already configured & has vlans running, etc. When I go to configure the next one and add it in, gentoo doesn't seem to have a graceful way of doing it.

Aside from doing the vconfig & ifconfig (or ip addr add) manually so that I don't have to tear down & bring up the whole interface, does gentoo have a scripted 'gentooized' method of doing this?

Thanks...

UberLord · Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 5:03 pm Post subject:

We have no support for that right now.

Interesting idea though, but as I'm likely to forget you can always request it on bugs.gentoo.org
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TheRealKinetix · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2

Ah, ok. Well, I've posted an enhancement bug for it.

Thanks for letting me know!

UberLord · Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 12:00 am Post subject:

Turned out the patch for that was quite simple

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