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From: Lee Hepler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, June 10, 2006 9:20 pm
Subject: Trunking in crossbow
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trunking has previously been a separate product for
combining several NICs into one virtual NIC. Would
you consider adding in the trunking capability to
enable there to be a pool of NICs available in
addition to having multiple virtual NICs operating on
a single NIC?
We call the feature you're looking Link Aggregation, and it was part
of the Nemo project which integrated it Solaris Nevada in March '05,
and later made available as part of Solaris 10U1.
See the following for more info on that feature, it's architecture,
ptr to source code, how it's managed, etc:
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nemo
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-4554/6maoq01nj?a=view
http://blogs.sun.com/droux
One requirement to this that you might not be aware
of is that each NIC may be on a totally separate
network that will require rigid separation implemented
by Trusted Solaris. I work on 7 separate networks
that can never be directly interconnected. But there
is a requirement to transfer data between these
networks under very stringent control implemented on
single systems using Trusted Solaris. Please also
include trusted capabilities in the crossbow project.
We are looking into this as part of Crossbow. I'd suggest using the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] alias for questions or discussions
specific to that project.
See also http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow
Nicolas.
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Nicolas Droux, Solaris Kernel Networking
Sun Microsystems, Inc. http://blogs.sun.com/droux
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