Re: 802.1q Was (Re: Plans for 2.5 / 2.6 ???

[Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My $0.02 (CDN)... 

I think that one of the fundamental issues involved here is that the 
networking code relies on network devices and sockets as the basic 
packet accepting and packet generating objects.   What we are seeing 
here is that we may want to have some other kind of basic object to 
work with (that is, if we don't want VLAN's to be represented by 
network devices). 
 
I would like to suggest that people take a look at the "netgraph" 
architecture for BSD.  I think that the kind of issues that people 
have raised in this discussion can be dealt with in a much simpler 
manner in such an architecture. 
 
For those of you not familiar with netgraph, here's a link to an 
introduction, though a quick search will reveal many more resources: 
 
http://www.daemonnews.org/200003/netgraph.html  
 
Michal Ostrowski
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