[99280] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Anyone using uvlan out there?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael.dillon@bt.com)
Fri Sep 14 09:55:01 2007
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:56:19 +0100
In-Reply-To: <D802CE78-670D-4D23-8BAA-5FEDF8829FCC@crc.id.au>
From: <michael.dillon@bt.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Using the libpcap (winpcap for windows users) library, uvlan=20
> listens to a specific ethernet device. If a broadcast frame=20
> is seen, then it is sent off to all the peers so they can add=20
> it to their records and emit the broadcast on their local=20
> network.=20
I doubt that we will be deploying Windows servers in our network to
route traffic. This is not the only way to do layer 2 over IP. See
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3931.html
--Michael Dillon
