Garrett D'Amore wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 13:24 -0700, Rajagopal Kunhappan wrote: > >> 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. >> > > > So I need to use the crossbow gate to test? That makes it hard for me > to integrate into Nevada before then. >
That is a problem. When I integrated multiple MAC address support to S10, I got help from LDOM folks to test out the multiple MAC address support. Since they were the ones asking for this support, they were more than willing to help out at that time. -krgopi > Although I guess I could give you patches for the drivers in the > crossbow gate... it just seems like that leads to more headaches for > sustaining as other patches get integrated (merge headaches). > > -- Garrett > >> -krgopi >> >> >>> -- Garrett >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> crossbow-discuss mailing list >>> crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/crossbow-discuss >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> crossbow-discuss mailing list >> crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/crossbow-discuss >> > >
