On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 05:16:30PM +0100, Paul Brook wrote: > > With -netdev, there now seems to be little need to support vlans, > > enabling them leads to user confusion and bad performance. > > Disable support for vlans by default, add config option to enable. > > No. If you want to remove vlans, then actually do that. > As I've said before if you want a point-point network model then you should > implement that (and remove the vlan code, probably replacing with equivalent > functionality). We should not have both point-point and broadcast interfaces. > > Paul
By the way I agree with this. It would have been better to simply prohibit more than 2 devices on a vlan instead of two competing ways to set up networking that we have now. And the conclusion I think should be to remove broadcast support ASAP. -- MST
