On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:39:31AM -0600, Nicolas Droux wrote: > If we could express that wireless NIC limitation through a > capability exported by the wireless driver, then we could have the > VNIC driver and the MAC layer check for that limitation and > "gracefully fail" the VNIC creation operation if the wireless NIC > underneath doesn't support that capability. I think we should be > able to provide information about that capability through dladm > show-* as well.
I'll enquire of the WiFi driver folks. > Something else to consider is that in the future we are planning to > allow multiple VNICs to share a single MAC address. How will packets be de-multiplexed (a simple IP address based mechanism might not be sufficient)? dme.
