Feature added by: Bernhard Walle
Feature #305631, revision 1, last change by
Title: vlan support in initrd
openSUSE-11.2: New
Requested by: Bernhard Walle (bwalle)
Partner organization: openSUSE.org
Description:
Quoting from Bugzilla 415389 (because external reporters are not able to create a FATE entry):
It would be very useful to be able to create vlan network interfaces in initrd via kernel command line parameters. This makes network support in initrd more complete.
In our case we need vlan support because all servers have two physical network interfaces. eth0 is connected to the default vlan, which is internet in our case. eth1 is a trunk interface connected to several internal vlans. We need the vlans to seperate traffic from different virtual machines. Only one vlan supports nfs, other vlans are more restricted or private to a customer owning a virtual machine.
Because a xen dom0 server doesn't need much diskspace, we boot them from the network. This requires the initrd to login to the nfs server, which requires vlan support.
Business case (Partner benefit):
openSUSE.org: I don't see any business case here.
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openSUSE Feature:
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