Hi folks, sorry, I had hoped somebody knew the answer and that the man page could be fixed.
I have just limited test equipment for verification, so I have setup a vlan interface for pfsync and tried some combinations. Result: Apparently there is no difference between up syncdev vlan111 and syncdev vlan111 up and syncdev vlan111 up in this setup, but up syncdev vlan111 seems weird, according to the output of ifconfig. Detailed results are attached. Hope this helps. Regards Harri
/etc/hostname.vlan111: vnetid 111 parent re0 /etc/hostname.pfsync0: syncdev vlan111 up vlan111: flags=8002<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:01:2e:55:c7:10 index 6 priority 0 llprio 3 encap: vnetid 111 parent re0 txprio packet rxprio outer groups: vlan media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex,rxpause,txpause) status: active pfsync0: flags=41<UP,RUNNING> mtu 1500 index 5 priority 0 llprio 3 encap: parent vlan111 pfsync: syncdev: vlan111 maxupd: 128 defer: off groups: carp pfsync
/etc/hostname.vlan111: vnetid 111 parent re0 /etc/hostname.pfsync0: syncdev vlan111 up vlan111: flags=8002<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:01:2e:55:c7:10 index 6 priority 0 llprio 3 encap: vnetid 111 parent re0 txprio packet rxprio outer groups: vlan media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex,rxpause,txpause) status: active pfsync0: flags=41<UP,RUNNING> mtu 1500 index 5 priority 0 llprio 3 encap: parent vlan111 pfsync: syncdev: vlan111 maxupd: 128 defer: off groups: carp pfsync
/etc/hostname.vlan111: vnetid 111 parent re0 /etc/hostname.pfsync0: up syncdev vlan111 vlan111: flags=8002<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:01:2e:55:c7:10 index 6 priority 0 llprio 3 encap: vnetid 111 parent re0 txprio packet rxprio outer groups: vlan media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex,rxpause,txpause) status: active pfsync0: flags=41<UP,RUNNING> mtu 1500 index 5 priority 0 llprio 3 encap: parent vlan111 pfsync: syncdev: vlan111 maxupd: 128 defer: off groups: carp pfsync
/etc/hostname.vlan111: vnetid 111 parent re0 /etc/hostname.pfsync0: up syncdev vlan111 vlan111: flags=8002<BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 lladdr 00:01:2e:55:c7:10 index 6 priority 0 llprio 3 encap: vnetid 111 parent re0 txprio packet rxprio outer groups: vlan media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex,rxpause,txpause) status: active pfsync0: flags=0<> mtu 1500 index 5 priority 0 llprio 3 encap: parent none groups: carp pfsync