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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 19:18:08 +0300
From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: A few nasty bugs in the networking code
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On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 03:09:59PM -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 21:24:23 +0300, Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> said:
> 
> > Isn't it better to assign the IFT_ETHER type to the vlan interface?
> > There might be other places in the code where vlans would behave
> > unexpectedly because of their type...
> 
> No, because SNMP and potentially other network management utilities
> need to know about it.
 
I see. Thus a separate type is needed for the vlan interface, and
/usr/sbin/arp should be modified to comprehend the new arp-capable
interface type, shouldn't it?

SY, Yar

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