kern/74861: Support to ISL VLANS?

Yar Tikhiy yar at comp.chem.msu.su
Mon Dec 13 06:30:23 PST 2004


The following reply was made to PR kern/74861; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Yar Tikhiy <yar at comp.chem.msu.su>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org, joe at tao.org.uk
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/74861: Support to ISL VLANS?
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:22:05 +0300

 I'm afraid that this PR is doomed.  5 years ago I worked for an
 academic network operations centre, where we ran ISL in FreeBSD
 using a homebrew implementation based on vlan(4).  Later, after I
 had got my commit bit, I wrote a mail to Cisco asking if they would
 like to relicense the ISL spec so that it could be implemented in
 open-source products.  I got an apparently negative reply.
 
 I still have working ISL code, but alas, I cannot make it public
 due to restrictive nature of Cisco's license on ISL.
 
 -- 
 Yar


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