VLAN issues

[Daniel Collins <daniel collins smoothwall net>]

Hi

I've been testing the bridging, bonding and VLAN functionality within NetworkManager 0.9.8 for use on a router and I think I've ran into a few bugs, test configurations attached.

vlan.tar

Attempts to configure an ethernet port as a VLAN trunk with two sub-interfaces, one of which identifies the parent interface by connection UUID (wanted behaviour) and one which uses the device name instead. The latter works fine but the former fails with the following error:

# nmcli con up id eth2.1

Error: Connection activation failed: Failed to determine connection's virtual interface name.

If the eth2.1 configuration is present during boot, NetworkManager creates the eth2.1 device (shown by ip link) but does not configure it. syslog includes the same error and 'nmcli con status' does not show the connection.

vlan-on-bond.tar

vlan-on-bridge.tar

vlan-on-vlan.tar

Attempts to configure a VLAN trunk on top of a bridge, a bond and a VLAN tag interface. Much the same as the VLAN configuration in vlan.tar, except neither sub-interface can be started or is created. 'nmcli con up ...' fails with the same error message.

Any thoughts?

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Attachment: vlan.tar
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Attachment: vlan-on-vlan.tar
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Attachment: vlan-on-bridge.tar
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Attachment: vlan-on-bond.tar
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