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 you mentioned that the LDOMs folks wanted it on S10. Does that mean > that there is some other consumer of this feature *today*? > Yes, LDOM vswitch uses it. We integrated this into S10 in Jan this year. Is that still S10U4?
> Btw, this will need to be included in an expanded version of the NICDRV > test suite, once there is some not-to-difficult mechanism for it to > configure this feature. > Yes, this should be done. -krgopi > -- 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 >
