On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 23:26 -0600, Nicolas Droux wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2007, at 12:02 AM, David Edmondson wrote:
>
> >> 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)?
>
> This still has to be designed properly, but for DHCP we'll most
> likely use client IDs to demultiplex the DHCP replies. For IP traffic
> of course the unicast IP address(es) associated with the VNICs will
> be used. Other type of traffic might require special processing (e.g.
> ARP).
>
> Nicolas.
>
Btw, a bunch of the 10/100 legacy NICs can support multiple MAC
addresses fairly trivially. Should updating this be something I should
be looking at? If there was a simple test suite to validate this
feature, it would certainly help in getting the feature added.
-- Garrett
