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From: eran@nbase.co.il (Eran Man)
To: vlan@Scry.WANfear.com
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	Dax Kelson <dkelson@gurulabs.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de>,
	"vlan-devel (other)" <vlan-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	Lennert <buytenh@gnu.org>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@nbase.co.il>
Subject: Re: [VLAN] Re: Should VLANs be devices or something else?
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:10:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B305A87.E4CAD52@nbase.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3B2FCE0C.67715139@candelatech.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106191641150.17061-100000@duely.gurulabs.com> <15151.55017.371775.585016@pizda.ninka.net> <3B2FDD62.EFC6AEB1@candelatech.com>


Ben Greear wrote:
> 
> "David S. Miller" wrote:

> > Conceptually, svr4 streams are a beautiful and elegant
> > mechanism. :-)
> >
> > Technical implementation level concerns need to be considered
> > as well as "does it look nice".
> 
> I found it to be the easiest way to implement things.  It allowed
> me to not have to touch any of layer 3, and I did not have to patch
> any user-space program like ip or ifconfig.
> 
> I'm not even sure if the nay-sayers ever had another idea, they
> just didn't like having lots of interfaces.  Originally, there
> were claims of inefficiency, but it seems that other than things
> like 'ip' and ifconfig, there are no serious performance problems
> I am aware of.

There is the issue with netlink notification of large number of events.
See the mail thread starting from:
http://oss.sgi.com/projects/netdev/mail/netdev/msg01879.html

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-06-20  7:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-19  8:19 VLAN in kernel? Holger Kiehl
2001-06-19 22:11 ` Should VLANs be devices or something else? Ben Greear
2001-06-19 22:45   ` Dax Kelson
2001-06-19 22:49     ` David S. Miller
2001-06-19 22:52       ` Dax Kelson
2001-06-19 23:16       ` Ben Greear
2001-06-20  0:31         ` Marcell Gal
2001-06-20  1:24           ` [VLAN] " Ben Greear
2001-06-20  8:10         ` Eran Man [this message]
2001-06-20  9:32       ` Gleb Natapov
2001-06-20  7:21   ` [VLAN] " Sander Steffann
2001-06-22  6:12     ` Peter C. Norton
2001-06-22  6:27       ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-06-22  6:36         ` Ben Greear
2001-06-21 22:10   ` [Vlan-devel] " Guy Van Den Bergh
2001-06-21 22:54     ` Ben Greear
2001-06-22 15:00       ` Matthias Welwarsky
2001-06-22 15:46         ` Chris Wedgwood

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