kern/74861: Support to ISL VLANS?

[Josef Karthauser]

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

From: Josef Karthauser <joe at FreeBSD.org>
To: Yar Tikhiy <yar at comp.chem.msu.su>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/74861: Support to ISL VLANS?
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 15:18:31 +0000

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 On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 05:22:05PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
 > 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.
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 > I still have working ISL code, but alas, I cannot make it public
 > due to restrictive nature of Cisco's license on ISL.
 
 I don't know where this code came from exactly, but Joe suggested that
 it was open sourced... That said perhaps it doesn't matter now with
 802.1Q in common usage.
 
 Joe
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