On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 01:33:15PM -0700, Peter Memishian wrote: > > > No. Once created, aggregations and vlans have wider implications for > > management of their underlying links. NWAM will not support those until > > it is able to fully manage creation/administration/destruction of them. > > The expectation is that that support will be able to come fairly quickly > > after phase 1 integrates. > > Given that a VLAN is a specialized form of VNIC (e.g., I can specify a > VLAN ID to create-vnic), what implications does it have that VNICs do not?
That's a vaild point. I suppose when you get down to it the answer is historical: we've always lumped vlans and aggrs together, and because of the extra work involved with aggrs, we just said support for those would come later. As you know, we've had an exceptionally hard time drawing boundaries around what nwam will and won't do, and when each feature will be added; that was one clear line that we could draw, so we've tried to stick to it. But after vnics came along, psarc asked us (the nwam team) to figure out a way to at least co-exist with them in phase 1; so we did that. We're on the verge of dev complete for nwam phase 1 (today or monday); I'm loathe to add additional features at this point. But I suppose if it's just a matter of adding an up-vlan call in net-nwam, it's hard to argue against that. I'll investigate. -renee
