Garrett D'Amore wrote: > 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. >
There is no test suite :-(. But it can be tested easily by creating VNICs and generating some traffic. -krgopi > > -- Garrett > > _______________________________________________ > crossbow-discuss mailing list > crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/crossbow-discuss >
