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

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 05:57:16PM +0200, Andrey Savochkin wrote:
> 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.

I don't think it is broken. It seems to me that one of the design goals
of netlink was to make it possible for multiple routing daemons (including
the ``admin daemon'') to coexist nicely. Moving all policy into a big
monolithic program would look broken for me.


-Andi

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