Hi, On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 02:19:16PM +0200, Andreas Henriksson wrote: > It seems ifupdown 0.7 (available in wheezy) now includes automatic > configuration of VLAN (by using iproute2). This should hopefully > finally deprecate vconfig. Does the vlan package provide anything > else that's useful any more or is it completely obsolete now?
Vconfig was already deprecated. The vlan package however not. It's still not obsolete. But I will take a look in ifupdown, because: 1) the remainder of the functionality of the vlan package has nothing to do with vlans, but are necessary and should be in ifupdown: those are generic ipv4 and ipv6 interface settings. 2) There were some bugs fixed in the latest vlan package that were preventing vlan to behave combined with macvlans. 3) the macvlan also needs support. I don't know if the ifupdown scripts do that. At least the vlan package could create macvlan interfaces on generic vlan interfaces on generic interfaces. The working combination of 1), 2) and 3) are absolutely necessary to support a good working 3 second l2 failovers, which covers I think at least 20% of the target audience of the vlan package. I have write access to the iproute2 package repository, but not to ifupdown. So I have to submit bugreports once I have tested the trunk. Regards, Ard -- .signature not found -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
