Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:20:25 GMT From: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/74861: Support to ISL VLANS? Message-ID: <200412131520.iBDFKPxe013608@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/74861; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> To: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/74861: Support to ISL VLANS? Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:18:31 +0000 --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 05:22:05PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > I'm afraid that this PR is doomed. 5 years ago I worked for an > academic network operations centre, where we ran ISL in FreeBSD > using a homebrew implementation based on vlan(4). Later, after I > had got my commit bit, I wrote a mail to Cisco asking if they would > like to relicense the ISL spec so that it could be implemented in > open-source products. I got an apparently negative reply. >=20 > I still have working ISL code, but alas, I cannot make it public > due to restrictive nature of Cisco's license on ISL. I don't know where this code came from exactly, but Joe suggested that it was open sourced... That said perhaps it doesn't matter now with 802.1Q in common usage. Joe --=20 Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D An eclectic mix of fact an= d theory. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkG9ssYACgkQXVIcjOaxUBadfACg2+3JE10auqivOdu/6zAnhVEY Hy0AoOxQGawbp+5O3nUZQhbCvhApxdZn =/HDa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SUOF0GtieIMvvwua--help
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