On May 17, 2007, at 4:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nicolas Droux wrote:
On behalf of the Networking Community I'd like to propose the
creation of a new OpenSolaris project: Virtual Network Machines.
The project will exploit OpenSolaris technologies provided by
Crossbow, Zones, Quagga, IP Filter, and other projects to build
Virtual Network Machines. The combination of features such as
network virtualization, bandwidth control, routing, scalability,
and filtering capabilities will be combined in new ways to enable
the virtualization and consolidation of network devices such as
routers, firewalls, load balancers, etc.
Does the team see further work on tunnelling protocols,
be they L2TP or some sort of L1TP (virtual wire) as part
of the scope of this project?
We're keeping the scope open to allow these kind of technologies to
make their way in if they can be useful to build deploy VNMs.
Why do I ask...
If I have a virtual network on host A that consists of
virtual routers, etc, why can't I construct a virtual wire
between it and host B where there's another virtual
network and have both virtual networks be the same
LAN even though they're on completely different hosts?
Another way of doing that is through "virtual bridges" which can be
used to "connect" a virtual network to a NIC on each host. The
virtual networks on each machine can also be built directly on top of
the physical NICs. There might be other ways of establishing this
connectivity as well.
Nicolas.
Darren
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