Subject: Re: Could you make vconfig less stupid?

From: Patrick McHardy <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:29:58 +0200

Milan Kocian wrote:
> It is a pity that vlan id will not be in interface name. It was 
> comfortable to have vlan id in interface name. 
> Any reason for changing naming schema ?

What has changed is that the kernel doesn't support the
naming policies for the netlink interface. I don't see any
need for that, you can simply do:

ip add link eth0 name eth0.1000 type vlan id 1000

or choose whatever different scheme you like.