"Bill Woodcock" <wo...@pch.net> writes: > ... Nobody's arguing against VLANs. Paul's argument was that VLANs > rendered shared subnets obsolete, and everybody else has been rebutting > that. Not saying that VLANs shouldn't be used.
i think i saw several folks, not just stephen, say virtual wire was how they'd do an IXP today if they had to start from scratch. i know that for many here, starting from scratch isn't a reachable worldview, and so i've tagged most of the defenses of shared subnets with that caveat. the question i was answering was from someone starting from scratch, and when starting an IXP from scratch, a shared subnet would be just crazy talk. -- Paul Vixie
