IXP

Fri Apr 24 01:48:28 UTC 2009

"Bill Woodcock" <woody at pch.net> writes:

> ... Nobody's arguing against VLANs.  Paul's argument was that VLANs
> rendered shared subnets obsolete, and everybody else has been rebutting
> that. Not saying that VLANs shouldn't be used.

i think i saw several folks, not just stephen, say virtual wire was how
they'd do an IXP today if they had to start from scratch.  i know that
for many here, starting from scratch isn't a reachable worldview, and so
i've tagged most of the defenses of shared subnets with that caveat.  the
question i was answering was from someone starting from scratch, and when
starting an IXP from scratch, a shared subnet would be just crazy talk.
-- 
Paul Vixie