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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@icir.org>
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Subject: making a dumb switch into a smart one
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partly off topic, but maybe someone migth find this interesting
given that the device can do vlan tag insertion/removal,
so it can be used to provide additional fan-in/fan-out
to freebsd-based routers in not too high-speed networks.

http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/FreeBSD/edimax/

cheers
luigi