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

[Andrey Savochkin <saw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Gleb,

On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 07:29:33AM +0000, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> As Mitchell said, will I be able to run OSPF between VLANs? I actually
> run zebra ospfd on vlans. Zebra has a strong notion of device. It relies
> on device up, device done, change ip and other messages from netlink.

I do not know how Zebra works, but the design described by you looks very
broken at the first glance.  If you run routing managements software on your
system you should perform all kernel state changes only through this
software.  Thus, the software do not need any kernel feedback about device/ip
state except the confirmations of its own commands.

> Will I be able to do that if vlan will be implemented not as a device.
> It looks like vlan will be useless without device interface, at least
> for me.

If Zebra works as you've told me, try to include their developers into
the discussion, too.

Best regards
                                        Andrey V.
                                        Savochkin