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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>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: A few nasty bugs in the networking code
Message-ID:  <20010321191808.A30699@comp.chem.msu.su>
In-Reply-To: <200103202009.PAA10260@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>; from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 03:09:59PM -0500
References:  <20010319203104.L43447@comp.chem.msu.su> <200103191732.SAA85848@info.iet.unipi.it> <SEN.985024831.955218181@news.sentex.net> <flhebtco6bd2bq3o145k3fl515ofotr471@4ax.com> <20010320212422.Q58464@comp.chem.msu.su> <200103202009.PAA10260@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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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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