Cathy Zhou wrote: >> There aren't any current plans to introduce per-zone names for network >> interfaces. Thus dladm would manage the global set of link names. >> (Folks have suggested that it would be nice to be able to give each >> zone a fixed name, but that means the global zone admin has to track >> the mapping between the global names and the per-zone names.) > > > I agree. > > Kais mentioned the per-zone link name feature when we were discussing > about Crossbow & Clearview the other day. I am copying this mail to him > and see whether he has something in mind.
I brought this up during our Crossbow meeting last week, when we were discussing Crossbow/Clearview interactions with Peter. The basic idea would be to allow each non-global zone to have its own name space for network devices. For example, this would allow each zone to have a "net0" interface. Each "net0" could map underneath to separate physical devices, VNICs, etc. As Erik mentioned, this means that obtaining the underlying device would have to include the zone id in addition to the device name. This would make zone configuration and eventual migrations easier since the configuration refering to network interface names could be identical for all the zones on a machine, and would ease the migration since we wouldn't have to worry about conflicts with other zones running on the target host. Nicolas. -- Nicolas Droux, Solaris Kernel Networking Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://blogs.sun.com/droux
