David Edmondson writes: > On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 10:26:03AM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > > I'd like to have someone else do the underlying generic bridging > > work because they're motivated. That'd be great, and I'd welcome > > collaboration with an active ethbridge project. Failing that, > > though, we'll have to figure out what makes sense for our project, > > even if that means reinventing a wheel. > > At the moment I don't know of anyone with a particular interest in > working on the code. As mentioned before, the Solaris on Xen project > used the code for a while but then switched to VNICs.
In that case, when we get to it, we'll pick it up. It's hard to keep up without a program, but looks like neither Yukun Zhang nor Mike Ditto is with Sun or active anymore on opensolaris.org. If that's true, that leaves the ethbridge project itself without leaders and without a rudder. I'll try to ping them, but if that doesn't pan out, I think the Networking or Xen core contributors ought to either find live owners for this project, or the endorsements should be withdrawn. It's a bit of a distraction otherwise. > > In order to determine which of these is the right direction, I think > > it'd be helpful to have a design document for the existing bridging > > code. Does that exist? Other than a README and a few discussions, > > I don't see one. > > I know of nothing more. OK. > > > The second would be more useful to some (due to the loopback changes), > > > but is incomplete (the loopback changes were not finished) and more > > > difficult to build (because you have to build ON). This version would > > > work as well as the first when built. > > > > I suspect that (1) would be the quickest way to a prototype. > > Okay. I'll extract the latest bits I have, make them build stand-alone > and then put them in a repository on hg.opensolaris.org. Great! Thanks. > Is there a particular date by which you need this? Nope. We're off to a slow start, and much of the work we need to do is in figuring out how the new IS-IS and TRILL code should operate. Bridging is obviously important, but we've got enough to stay busy for some time. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
