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

To: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: 802.1q Was (Re: Plans for 2.5 / 2.6 ???
From: Mitchell Blank Jr <mitch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 18:19:55 -0700
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.20.0005312016180.10393-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; from hadi@xxxxxxxxxx on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 08:26:28PM -0400
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> Your architecture of maintaining a device per VLAN does not scale;
> (as you might have heard from your numerous attempts to change device
> lookups). 

Is it just impossible to make this scale in 2.5?  There are other things
which could require large numbers of network devices (like large-scale
PPPoA/PPPoE termination), it would be nice to support them.

> What is the specific reason that you insist on mapping a VLAN to a device?
> Have you thought of using a VLAN lookup table instead? 

How would you implement IP filtering on each VLAN then?

-Mitch

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