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RE: Anyone using uvlan out there?

  • From: michael.dillon
  • Date: Fri Sep 14 09:58:26 2007 
> Using the libpcap (winpcap for windows users) library, uvlan 
> listens to a specific ethernet device. If a broadcast frame 
> is seen, then it is sent off to all the peers so they can add 
> it to their records and emit the broadcast on their local 
> network. 

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