Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:43:11 +0100
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: [alpine-devel] configuring bonding and vlans
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Hi,

Yesterday I spent a couple of hours to only configure bonding and vlan
tagging on a box and realized, it is way to difficult and its very easy
to do minor mistakes causing network not to start up at boot.

So I have now copied the pre-up scripts from debian and done some
adjustments for making it work with busybox.

This means that you now can configure bond interfaces like:

iface bond0 inet static
	bond-slaves eth0 eth1
	address 192.168.0.1
	netmask 255.255.255.0


And it will "just work".


Same with vlans. Just add:


iface bond0.64 inet static
	address 192.168.64.2
	netmask 255.255.255.0

or:

iface vlan64 inet static
	address 192.168.64.2
	netmask 255.255.255.0
	vlan-raw-device bon0


Currently you'll need add the packages vlan and bonding from
edge/testing, but I am considering add this functionality to
alpine-baslayout. It is only a handful scripts that takes very little
space.

Meanwhile, please test it from the bridge-utils and vlan packages.

I'll have a look on bridges too while i'm here...

Thanks!

-nc


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