Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: add an option to disable vlans

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

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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MST