[VLAN] macvlan_config

[Alex Zeffertt]

Ben Greear wrote:
> Ard van Breemen wrote:
>> Hello Ben,
>> I want to start supporting macvlan's in debian (with debian style
>> "auto" configuration).
>> I'm just not so charmed with the name macvlan_config.
>> Is it ok if I rename that (in the resulting package) to mvconfig?
> 
> That is fine by me.
> 
>> I think that macvlan's are essential if you want to do "pure"
>> vrrp implementations (with mac-address failover).
> 
> I have re-written the mac-vlan patch a bit lately, primarily to
> simplify the code and remove functionality I never used (and thus, never 
> tested.)
> 
> The main changes:
> 
> *  Allow only matching on the destination MAC, not the source.
> 


Uh?  Surely source MAC matching is what MAC address based VLANs
(on any platform) should be about.  So that you can group hosts into
VLANs.


> *  Allow only matching a single MAC address, not a list.
>    (Removed the hash lookup logic as well.)
> 

Why? Surely the point of VLANs is to group *multiple* hosts into
virtual LANs.

> If you want to re-add this functionality, lets talk about it.
> 
> I also fixed some crashes on module removal and some locking
> logic.
> 
> The patch is now included in our combined patch, but you can
> split it out easily enough.  You can find the patch here:
> 
> http://www.candelatech.com/oss/candela_2.6.17.patch
> 
> The latest vconfig/mvl_config snapshot is here:
> http://www.candelatech.com/oss/vlan-2006-08-04.tgz
> 
> 

This seems to be completely unrelated now to the patch I originally
sent to this list.  This is not a problem in itself, but I can't see
how the functionality still relates to MAC address based VLANs....

Alex