Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Jun 2001 10:10:47 +0200 | From | (Eran Man) | Subject | Re: [VLAN] Re: Should VLANs be devices or something else? |
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Ben Greear wrote: > > "David S. Miller" wrote:
> > Conceptually, svr4 streams are a beautiful and elegant > > mechanism. :-) > > > > Technical implementation level concerns need to be considered > > as well as "does it look nice". > > I found it to be the easiest way to implement things. It allowed > me to not have to touch any of layer 3, and I did not have to patch > any user-space program like ip or ifconfig. > > I'm not even sure if the nay-sayers ever had another idea, they > just didn't like having lots of interfaces. Originally, there > were claims of inefficiency, but it seems that other than things > like 'ip' and ifconfig, there are no serious performance problems > I am aware of.
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