Talk:VLAN

Hello,

Using the following configuration Alpine 3.19.0 kernel 6.6.13-0-lts does not seem to work depsite the vlan package being present.

auto vlan8
iface vlan8
	address 192.168.0.2/24
	gateway 192.168.0.1
	vlan-raw-device eth0

Has anyone tested this recently ?

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Nailko (talk • contribs) 10:02, 29 January 2024‎

Hi there, looks like the very old examples in the article are using the wrong syntax for busybox's ifup... (the vlan package doesn't use ifupdown-ng)... The address and netmask lines cannot be combined. Also good practice to explicitly specify if the interface is DHCP or static... See if something like this will work for you:

auto vlan8
iface vlan8 inet static
	address 192.168.0.2
	netmask 255.255.255.0
	gateway 192.168.0.1
	vlan-raw-device eth0

My testing only consisted of seeing if the networking service could be bought up successfully, I have no idea if the VLAN tagging is working or not.

BTW, for clarity's sake, I set preformatting on for the config in your post to make it easier to see the differences, hope you don't mind!

–zcrayfish (talk•contribs•send email) 19:07, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

Hey, I just tested this on 3.21, looks good

lion:~# cat /proc/net/vlan/config 
VLAN Dev name	 | VLAN ID
Name-Type: VLAN_NAME_TYPE_RAW_PLUS_VID_NO_PAD
vlan2360       | 2360  | bond0
lion:~# cat /proc/net/vlan/vlan2360 
vlan2360  VID: 2360	 REORDER_HDR: 1  dev->priv_flags: 81021
         total frames received            8
          total bytes received         1442
      Broadcast/Multicast Rcvd            8

      total frames transmitted           17
       total bytes transmitted         2232
Device: bond0
INGRESS priority mappings: 0:0  1:0  2:0  3:0  4:0  5:0  6:0 7:0
 EGRESS priority mappings: 


lion:~# cat /etc/network/interfaces 
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto bond0
iface bond0 inet dhcp
    # will be eth0/eth1 for normal setups
	bond-slaves onboard0 onboard1
auto vlan2360
iface vlan2360 inet static
        address 192.168.236.1
        netmask 255.255.255.0
        vlan-raw-device bond0

lion:~# cat /etc/mactab 
onboard0 18:c0:4dzzzzz1
onboard1 18:c0:4dzzzzz2

I'll try pinging soon and update if it were really broken.

I havent done larger changes to pags on the wiki in a decade but maybe we (the ominous 'someone' we should change the vlan page to primarily cover the current case and only reference a different page for the old setup with the vlan package)

--Darkfader (talk) 23:37, 24 March 2025 (UTC)

Hi Darkfader, please take a look at the ifupdown-ng vxlan man page and see if this page can be suitably updated. Please feel free to update wiki page and we can always retain the busybox-ifupdown specific config as a seperate section. -- Prabuanand (talk) 04:04, 25 March 2025 (UTC)