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authorbrooks <brooks@FreeBSD.org>2002-05-29 06:55:06 +0000
committerbrooks <brooks@FreeBSD.org>2002-05-29 06:55:06 +0000
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Document the fact that these devices are allocated at runtime using
cloning and point to two common methods of doing so.
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@@ -43,6 +43,18 @@ the IEEE 802.1Q standard into logical
network interfaces, which allows routing/bridging between
multiple VLANs through a single switch trunk port.
.Pp
+Each
+.Nm
+interface is created at runtime using interface cloning.
+This is
+most easily done with the
+.Xr ifconfig 8
+.Cm create
+command or using the
+.Va cloned_interfaces
+variable in
+.Xr rc.conf 5 .
+.Pp
To function, a
.Nm
interface must be assigned a parent interface and
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