Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 20:32:03 +0100 From: Bruce Simpson <bms@fastmail.net> To: Eric van Gyzen <vangyzen@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r306652 - head/usr.sbin/arp Message-ID: <d08c25b0-1171-3688-67e7-8d954f5f087b@fastmail.net> In-Reply-To: <b1698eea-0ef0-7cc0-6fa7-e9eaca8b8d8d@FreeBSD.org> References: <201610031902.u93J2MR8062236@repo.freebsd.org> <abe6604a-cc69-f104-1ce1-7aaa48f4f076@fastmail.net> <b1698eea-0ef0-7cc0-6fa7-e9eaca8b8d8d@FreeBSD.org>
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On 03/10/16 20:22, Eric van Gyzen wrote: > The collision is unfortunate, but I agree that the context should be enough. Agreed -- other technical writers have also used this version of the GARP acronym in doco. >> However, that GARP -- 802.1ak -- is due to be replaced with MRP. > > The "Mental-map Rewriting Protocol"? ;-) Multiple Registration Protocol (MRP) is intended to fill most of the roles GARP/GVRP did, for dynamic VLAN, end-station MAC and L2 multicast registration. (Think Ethernet multicast without IP.) Actually, being reminded of this gave me an idea -- adding a subset of what's needed to support MRP to if_bridge would probably also help for supporting Ethernet rings; those protocols need to call into VLAN registration and port blocking too. It would make for some good junior kernel hacker tasks...home | help
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