Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 02:43:45PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> Linux currently has no support for VLANs in any standard kernel,
> so therefore there is no standard way to get it. Intel iirc has
> an own VLAN implementation, there are also others.
>
> I'd really like to see one of the two (three) implementations out
> there cleaned up and integrated real soon if possible.
>
> There is .1q aware hardware so having some infrastructure will help
> guide people there. Not to mention, it's quite a useful thing to
> have, something NetBSD has had for a while and FreeBSD for a little
> less time now.
>
> Dave/Alexey -- have either of you two looked at the code that is out
> there and considered how difficult integration might be?
I believe I've cleaned up most of the complaints I've heard in the
past with my VLAN patch (http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear/vlan.html)
I would be honored if it found it's way into the kernel. It has
been in use for some time and seems to be pretty stable (there
is a small compile problem when compiled as a module..I'll fix
when I update the patch to the next 2.4.2 kernel)
If anyone has any comments/suggestions, please let me know..and
feel free to cc the vlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailing list (if you're
subscribed)
Thanks,
Ben
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Author of ScryMUD: scry.wanfear.com 4444 (Released under GPL)
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