* Nicolas.Droux at Sun.COM [2007-02-05 22:38:53] > David Edmondson wrote: >> * Nicolas.Droux at Sun.COM [2007-02-05 19:23:05] >>> Combined with VNICs, these virtual switches will allow virtual >>> networks to be built within a host without depending on any physical >>> NICs. We're currently planning to allow several instances of these >>> virtual switches to be instantiated, and connected via "virtual >>> bridges". >> >> What's the purpose of the "virtual bridge"? > > It allows you to "connect" these virtual switches at the MAC layer > without network layer processing by the stack.
In that case, what's a "virtual switch"? Maybe you view what happens at the VNIC layer as "switch"? dme. -- David Edmondson, Sun Microsystems, http://www.dme.org
