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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] configuring bonding and vlans
From: =?UTF-8?Q?Roger_Pau_Monn=C3=A9?= <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
To: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
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2012/3/9 Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>:
> 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
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0bond-slaves eth0 eth1
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0address 192.168.0.1
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0netmask 255.255.255.0
>
>
> And it will "just work".
>
>
> Same with vlans. Just add:
>
>
> iface bond0.64 inet static
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0address 192.168.64.2
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> or:
>
> iface vlan64 inet static
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0address 192.168.64.2
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0netmask 255.255.255.0
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0vlan-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.

Do we have to change the setup-interfaces script to change the way
bridges are created?

> 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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