Description of problem: Fedora 10 seems to have support for macvlan devices both in kernel an iproute. It would be nice if initscripts supported a feature as well and allowed to create macvlan devices using /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-* files. I suggest adding new TYPE=macvlan and then handle it similarily to bond or bridge.
Thanks for your suggestion. Keeping it as NEW. BugZapper Team
What advantages does this have over tun/tap?
The comparison with tun or tap doesn't make sense - tun and tap drivers are used to create vpns as one end of the device is network device and the other talks to user space. macvlan is more like an alias or vlan - one end is network device visible to user and the other talks to physical device (I guess it is dedicated to ethernet but I am not sure). The advantage over alias is that macvlan carries its own mac address, this for example allows it to be configured by dhcp (you can't configure alias with dhcp). The advantage over vlan is that it can be located in untagged vlan (or any other vlan as you can create macvlan over vlan device itself). In short - macvlan creates new interface with distinct mac address over existing interface.
Just a short starter how it is possible to configure macvlan now: geralt:/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts# ip link add link eth0 type macvlan geralt:/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts# cat ifcfg-macvlan0 DEVICE=macvlan0 ONBOOT=no BOOTPROTO=dhcp IPV6INIT=yes IPV6_AUTOCONF=yes geralt:/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts# ifup macvlan0 Ustalanie informacji IP dla macvlan0... zrobione. geralt:/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts# ifconfig macvlan0 macvlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr D6:30:32:E7:0D:85 inet addr:192.168.0.232 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: 2001:6a0:111:0:d430:32ff:fee7:d85/64 Scope:Global inet6 addr: fe80::d430:32ff:fee7:d85/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:52 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:14 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:4758 (4.6 KiB) TX bytes:1880 (1.8 KiB) unfortunately deletion seems to have some problems but should work as below: geralt:/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts# ifdown macvlan0 geralt:/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts# ip link delete maclvan0 type macvlan Cannot find device "maclvan0"
Any progress? You have useful network options in kernel/userspace which not not supported in initscripts. In RHEL6 now.
F17 also have support l2tp L2 kernel level tunnels. Will you ignore this feature too?
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database. Reassigning to the new owner of this component.
Sorry, initscripts are in maintenance mode now, so that means no new features. Please use NetworkManager instead.