From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 12:39:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 12:39:19 -0500 Received: from gleb.nbase.co.il ([194.90.136.56]:266 "EHLO gleb.nbase.co.il") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 7 Jan 2001 12:39:10 -0500 From: Gleb Natapov Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2001 19:37:57 +0200 To: jamal Cc: Chris Wedgwood , Ben Greear , linux-kernel , "netdev@oss.sgi.com" Subject: Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!) Message-ID: <20010107193757.F28257@nbase.co.il> In-Reply-To: <20010107162905.B1804@metastasis.f00f.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from hadi@cyberus.ca on Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:56:26AM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 11:56:26AM -0500, jamal wrote: > > > On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > > That said, if this was done -- how would things like routing daemons > > and bind cope? > > I dont know of any routing daemons that are taking advantage of the > alias interfaces today. This being said, i think that the fact that a > lot of protocols that need IP-ization are coming up eg VLANs; you should > see a good use for this. Out of curiosity for the VLAN people, how do you > work with something like Zebra? Without any problems. Zebra sees different VLAN interfaces as different networks and happily route between them. > One could have the route daemon take charge of management of these > devices, a master device like "eth0" and a attached device like "vlan0". > They both share the same ifindex but different have labels. > Basically, i dont think there would be a problem. > Theoretically it seems to be possible but it's much harder to do in Zebra than in kernel. And "eth0" shouldn't share ifindex with "vlan0" I don't think SNMP will be happy about that. -- Gleb. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/