Garrett D'Amore writes: > Has any thought been given to the notion of just eliminating the vlan > hack altogether?
More than once, sure. > It seems like there are better ways to express vlans, and the "hack" has > always been a bit unsettling to me. Now that we're on a > pseudo-major-release boundary (OpenSolaris), couldn't this be a time to > break that compatibility? My understanding is that it's not open season on all possible incompatibilities, or even those that just please us, but rather only those few that are strictly necessary to achieve some higher level of "familiarity" (or perhaps "parity") with Linux. I don't see how the existence of the VLAN hack is related to Linux in any substantial way. I agree with you that it's an ugly thing and certainly does cause problems, but that's not something I can see solving just because of the Linux compatibility goal. More importantly, eliminating the VLAN hack does nothing to solve the problem I've described, so I've got nothing to gain by it. (I've heard that Crossbow aims to remove the hack. I don't know whether that's the final goal, a strict requirement, or just something that discussed with the ARC. In any event, that's not this project.) > (Actually, although everyone knows about, I'm > having trouble locating any documentation that specifically refers to > the PPA-based VLAN hack. So maybe its not technically interface breakage > anyway.) I cited it in the previous message -- it's defined in PSARC 2000/147. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
