* Rajagopal.Kunhappan at Sun.COM [2009-05-05 19:25:30] >> The Xen network backend driver will pass chains of packets to the >> downstream MAC client (usually a VNIC). > > When you have a VNIC, then there is the existence of virtual switch in > MAC. Each packet is peeked into to see if the packet has to be sent to > another VNIC on the virtual switch. If the packet is not for VNIC, it > is sent to the driver. But we can look into building chains before > sending packets to VNIC or the driver.
You can run the Xen backend driver directly over a physical NIC as well, but this is not a common configuration. dme. -- David Edmondson, Sun Microsystems, http://dme.org
