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From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] disallow vlan devices on top of a logical bridge device
Date: 30 Aug 2003 23:16:00 +0200
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Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be> writes:

> The patch below disables making vlan devices on top of bridge
> devices, f.e. br0.12 would be impossible.
> I'm no vlan expert, but I don't see the use for this

There could be some - I'm not using such setup, but I can imagine
doing trunk bridging.
This is sometimes used with dumb (non-VLAN but 1518 bytes-capable)
switches. With Linux, it might be used as well, especially if someone
wants STP to manage trunks and not VLANs (with many VLANs it may
make perfect sense)
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Krzysztof Halasa, B*FH