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: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:29:29 +0000

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 On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 09:22:25PM +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote:
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 > The code from Joe Marcus Clarke looks like a protocol dissector for
 > some kind of a network sniffer while I've got an if_isl driver
 > working in 4-STABLE.  However, it may not be included into FreeBSD
 > for licensing reasons I described.  The very ISL _specification_
 > is under a restrictive license by Cisco, not code implementing it.
 > On the one hand, I doubt that Cisco would sue a network sniffer
 > project for including an ISL dissector, but on the other hand, we
 > would be asking for legal trouble if we added if_isl to FreeBSD
 > since it would be a real application of the encumbered protocol.
 > There were enough license wars in the nearest past out there.
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 > Taking this into consideration, I think this PR can be closed.
 >=20
 
 Sounds fair.  Would you like to do the honours?
 
 Regards,
 Joe
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