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

[Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Andrey Savochkin wrote:

> I think that the current VLAN implementation slightly abuses the
> notion of device.  And it doesn't relate to the number of devices and
> the efficiency of search algorithms.  The current VLAN implementation
> is a pure packet-mangling code.  It misses one of the most important
> properties of network devices - flow control.  Any code that doesn't
> provide flow control isn't a device, but a code just manipulating of
> packet contents.

>From this I may conclude that current (2.3) bridging is broken too as it
works as a device?


greetings,
Lennert