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

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Andi Kleen wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 09:21:39PM +0200, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> 
> Netfilter is not an IP only thing. It is a generic framework for 
> packet mangling. Although currently only IPv4 
> and IPv6 netfilter implementations exist it would be no big problem
> to add ``raw ethernet'' netfilter hooks.
> 

Andi,
Isnt packet type sufficient for this today? or are you talking about hooks
based in addition to things like src/dst MACs?

In regards to netlink and devices and the route daemons:
I agree that netlink would be the best for daemons to use for anything
that is routable.
[compare to some daemons (MERIT?) which used to/maybe still are polling
/proc ;->].

But does it have to be a _device_ to use netlink? i think not.

cheers,
jamal