netdev - Re: Vlan interface nuisance

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Message-ID: <20090302172057.GA23247@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date:	Mon, 2 Mar 2009 12:20:58 -0500
From:	lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen)
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Vlan interface nuisance

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:47:31PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Why is interface created through netlink named 'vlan0' and
> interface created through old vconfig called 'ethX.YY'.
> Seems like the interface should be consistent.

That does seem silly.

ethX.YYYY told you which physical interface and which vlan number it was.

vlan0 tells you nothing useful.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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