Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:
> My telco is moving to feeding me over fiber, breaking out with a media 
> converter to one Ethernet interface. At present, I am retaining the 
> static feed over copper on eth0, and taking the two new feeds via vlans 
> on eth1. I have configured the static IP feed on eth1:790 as vlan 790, 
> and that seems to be fine, and eth1:780 as the PPPOE feed, and brought 
> up PPPOE to give me an IP, that is configured as interface ppp0.
> The ppp0 feed works fine. I have trouble understanding how to refer to 
> eth1:790 in the configuration files. Should I just call it eth1 or can I 
> refer to it as eth1:790?

Neither. VLAN interfaces are typically given names like eth1.780 and
eth1.790. Neither Shorewall nor iptables nor ip can deal with names that
look like ifconfig aliases as yours do.

-Tom
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