Re: Should VLANs be devices or something else?

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Tue, 19 Jun 2001 15:49:13 -0700 (PDT)


Dax Kelson writes:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Ben Greear wrote:
> > Should VLANs be devices or some other thing?
>
> I would vote that VLANs be devices.
>
> Conceptually, VLANs as network devices is a no brainer.

Conceptually, svr4 streams are a beautiful and elegant
mechanism. :-)

Technical implementation level concerns need to be considered
as well as "does it look nice".

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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