Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission
Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@traveler.cistron-office.nl)
7 Jan 2001 16:44:37 GMT
In article <E14FGD4-0002f7-00@the-village.bc.nu>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>At this point you have to ask 'why is vlan4001 an interface'. Would it not
>be cleaner to add the vlan id to the entries in the list of addresses per
>interface ?
Not all the world is IP - what if you want to bridge between
an ATM ELAN (LANE) and a VLAN? Note that different ATM ELANs also
show up as seperate interfaces.
Mike.
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