Re: Network-manager and VLAN

[Pavel Simerda <psimerda redhat com>]

Hi,

> Thanks for the answer, but as I said, I am using Ubuntu and do not
> have
> the rhel configuration scripts.
> 
> I have finally managed to get a VLAN connection working with the
> following keyfile:
> 
> [connection]
> id=VLAN1
> uuid=ed3b2385-9016-45c6-a277-fa7e5be8fe9d
> type=vlan
> 
> [vlan]
> parent=eth0
> id=1
> 
> [ipv6]
> method=auto
> 
> [ipv4]
> method=auto

Thanks for your example config file.

> 1. There seems to be no autoconnect feature for VLAN connections. If
> I
> insert the cable, nm does not automatically start the VLAN
> connection.
> For normal wired connections this works.

Please file a bugreport at bugzilla.gnome.org.

> 2. I hoped that nm-applet would at least show these connections, so
> that
> one can start or stop a connection without being able to edit the
> connection details. Unfortunately, this seems not to be the case.
> 
> If I see all of this correctly, then the only way to start or stop a
> connection every time a cable is connected, is to issue
> 
> nmcli con up id VLAN1
> 
> at the command line.

This could be worked around with the dispatcher scripts.

> > VLAN=yes
> > TYPE=Vlan
> > DEVICE=eth9.43
> > PHYSDEV=eth9
> > 
> > ONBOOT=yes
> > BOOTPROTO=static
> > IPADDR=192.168.43.149
> > NETMASK=255.255.255.0

Thanks also for the original one.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Tools/NetworkManager/VLAN

Cheers,

Pavel