Garrett D'Amore writes: > Its a very common approach that I've run into. When you think about > folks designing for switches which either add or strip tags before > before forwarding to other ports, the design makes sense.
I see. I'd actually expect the complications with various policy and filtering rules to make it more of a wash. > (Its a lot > less useful for host-based NICs.) Yep. > Anyway, this is my point... we need to separate, I believe, the ability > to support VLANs from any ability to do arbitrary encapsulations. > > I'd still prefer to treat other encapsulations in the same manner... > assuming that the number of them is small and not expected to grow > much. Right now the only other encapsulation over ethernet that I'm > aware of is RBridges. At least for encapsulations that are going to behave as Ethernet header overhead rather than as payload (MPLS is an example of the latter), that's what I'd expect. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 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]
