Re: VLAN issues

[Pavel Simerda <psimerda redhat com>]

Hi, thanks for your report. Would you mind also starting a bugzilla.gnome.org bugreport so that it can be 
properly tracked?

Cheers,

Pavel

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Collins" <daniel collins smoothwall net>
> To: networkmanager-list gnome org
> Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2013 10:30:00 AM
> Subject: VLAN issues
>
>
>
> 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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> Daniel Collins
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