On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 14:54 +0100, David Edmondson wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 06:44:51AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> > STA == client mode. (STA == station mode, as opposed to AP mode.)
>
> Thanks.
>
> > I'm surprised that you can't cook up raw headers (maybe full 802.11
> > headers) to issue any mac address you want.
>
> Gee, thanks :-p
>
> > In any case, VNICs are probably nearly exclusively of interest to
> > wired LANs.
>
> The Solaris on Xen project by default uses VNICs to provide network
> access for guest domains. If VNICs aren't available on wireless NICs
> then guest domains on systems with only a wireless NIC won't be able
> to get to the network.
>
> Of course, we need to hurry up the work to provide a NAT (L2 or L3) or
> routing based solution, but neither of those will happen in time for
> our initial putback.
I understood that someone was working on a "vswitch" project? Combined
with VNICs and routing in the Dom0, it should work.
-- Garrett
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