Re: Support for ISL?

William F. Maton (wmaton@ryouko.dgim.crc.ca)
Mon, 20 Dec 1999 08:26:09 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Jeff Mcadams wrote:

> Thus spake Jason Hill
> >Is anyone currently working on adding support to 2.2.x (or for
> >2.3.x/2.4) for ISL encapsulation? This would be an incredibly useful
> >feature to the networking code.
>
> I'd rather see 802.1q than ISL. Even though I use ISL in a spot or two
> in my network...that's not long for the world...it was the only real
> option at the time...but being a Cisco proprietary thing...I'd rather
> not having developers wasting their time implementing it, and go ahead
> and do 802.1q

IIRC, 802.1q is now in almost all the Cisco switching software now, and I
wouldn't be too surprised if this fell into disuse over the next two
years.

Yes 802.1q would be where I would spend my cycles.

wfms

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