On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 08:33:34AM -0400, Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:

On Tue, 2006-01-08 at 08:08 -0400, John W. Linville wrote:

quoted

And, I think that a
reconsideration of all three functions as a group could lead to
better/cleaner functionality with easier support for extension (e.g.
802.1s).

Agreed. I have some very strong opinions on this subject that i could
share with you if you want. For example, IMO, I think it would be a lot
reasonable to assume that a VLAN or VLANS are attributes of a netdevice
(just like IP addresses or MAC addresses are). 

I'd love to hear them.  Feel free to send them off list, since I know
how shy you can be... :-)

John
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