From: "Peter C. Norton" <spacey@lenin.nu>
To: Sander Steffann <steffann@nederland.net>
Cc: vlan@Scry.WANfear.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, Lennert <buytenh@gnu.org>,
Gleb Natapov <gleb@nbase.co.il>
Subject: Re: [VLAN] Should VLANs be devices or something else?
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 23:12:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010621231212.A20200@lenin.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0106191016200.27487-100000@talentix.dwd.de> <3B2FCE0C.67715139@candelatech.com> <004b01c0f959$af9d96c0$8e01a8c0@OFFICE>
In-Reply-To: <004b01c0f959$af9d96c0$8e01a8c0@OFFICE>; from steffann@nederland.net on Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:21:55AM +0200
I agree with the device vote. Also, if the interface to the vlan devices
are similar enough to ethernet that the bonding driver can easily
incorperate them, then you can get bonded (a.k.a. redundant) trunks for
cheap. This would lead to linux becoming a more robust router in practice.
-Peter
On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 09:21:55AM +0200, Sander Steffann wrote:
> Hi Ben & all,
>
> > Should VLANs be devices or some other thing?
>
> VLANs should be devices IMHO. It 'feels' right, and I think it's what most
> (if not all) users expect them to be.
>
> Bye,
> Sander.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-22 6:12 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
2001-06-20 9:32 ` Gleb Natapov
2001-06-20 7:21 ` [VLAN] " Sander Steffann
2001-06-22 6:12 ` Peter C. Norton [this message]
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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