[Xorp-hackers] VLAN support

[Pavlin Radoslavov]

<kristian at spritelink.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:30:15 -0700, Pavlin Radoslavov <pavlin at icir.org>
> wrote:
> > Kristian Larsson <kristian at spritelink.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> Hello everyone :)
> >>
> >> I've seen a few CVS commits recently relating to VLAN configuration. I
> >> would like to know what the current status is of the interface naming
> >> scheme. The current standard has been questioned on several occasions
> >> and I would like to see that the project reaches some form of consensus
> >> on this before just implementing things.
> >>
> >> I read through an old thread with the subject 'Some thoughts' which
> >> Hasso started. What is your view on those ideas?
> >>
> >> Do you currently have in mind a naming scheme for VLAN and other
> >> "sub-interfaces"?
> > 
> > The VLAN changes are to the backend and they follow the existing
> > interface/vif scheme: the VLAN is a vif to the parent interface.
> > Nothing has been changed in the user front-end.
> 
> I understand that nothing has been changed so far, what I'm interested in
> is if it will be.
> And I'm not certain how VLANs fit in under the current naming scheme, since
> it's not currently implemented...
> Under linux a vlan interface by default is named <interface>.<vlan id> and
> under FreeBSD a vlan is named vlan<sequence number>, where the sequence
> number has no correlation to the vlan id. Is XORP supposed to somehow
> follow this?
> interface eth0 {
>           vif eth0.123 {
>           }
> }
> or on freebsd
> interface fxp0 {
>           vid vlan2 {
>           }
> }
> ??
> How do I know the tag which is used on FreeBSD?
> Could you please provide a few examples of how it may look ? :)

No, until the implementation is completed :)

Regards,
Pavlin

>   -K
> 
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