Re: "ifconfig -vlandev" syntax

From: Yar Tikhiy <yar_at_comp.chem.msu.su>
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 15:05:09 +0400
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:54:21PM +0300, Justas Jakubauskas wrote:
> 
> > -vlandev takes a useless argument (vlan(4) cannot attach to more
> > than one parent anyway) while, e.g., -carpdev doesn't need one.
> 
> And how system should know, to which device attach your vlan ?

"-vlandev" is for _detaching_ a vlan interface from its parent.
The option is used more often than it could because one cannot move
a vlan interface to another parent or VLAN tag w/o detaching it
first.

-- 
Yar
Received on Thu Sep 22 2005 - 09:05:26 UTC

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