This didn't seem to make the list earlier...or I hosed up my
mail setup somehow....
Ben Greear wrote:
>
> 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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