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On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Gleb Natapov wrote:

> > I used to be against VLANS being devices, i am withdrawing that comment; it's
> > a lot easier to look on them as devices if you want to run IP on them. And
> > in this case, it makes sense the possibilirt of  over a thousand devices
> > is good.
> >
>
> Glad to hear :) So perhaps this is a good time to move one of VLAN implementations
> into the official kernel?
>

Absolutely.
I think we need a VLAN implementation in there.

cheers,
jamal