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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add an option to disable vlans
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add an option to disable vlans |
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Tue, 8 Jun 2010 15:17:46 +0300 |
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Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) |
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.
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add an option to disable vlans, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add an option to disable vlans, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2010/06/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add an option to disable vlans, Anthony Liguori, 2010/06/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add an option to disable vlans, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2010/06/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add an option to disable vlans, Gerd Hoffmann, 2010/06/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add an option to disable vlans, Paul Brook, 2010/06/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add an option to disable vlans, Anthony Liguori, 2010/06/08
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add an option to disable vlans, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2010/06/07
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add an option to disable vlans, Markus Armbruster, 2010/06/09
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add an option to disable vlans, Chris Webb, 2010/06/10
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add an option to disable vlans, Michael S. Tsirkin, 2010/06/10
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add an option to disable vlans,
Michael S. Tsirkin <=