Erik Nordmark wrote: >Paul Durrant wrote: > > > >>Once Nemo becomes the one true driver interface then you should also >>be able to dispense with DLPI between IP and Nemo completely and plumb >>by making calls directly from IP into DLS. This was one of my original >>intentions for the future of DLS. >> >> > >We've talked about softmac (Clearview Nemo Unification) enabling this >for LAN drivers. But there currently aren't any plans to make sure that >softmac works for PPP, so until then we'd need some DLPI code at the >bottom of IP. > > softmac also needs to be able to handle vni, cgtp or such other virtual/pseudo drivers that are DLPI based. Today people can modinsert a STREAMS module between the driver and IP, I don't know if it is possible to achieve the equivalent with softmac after the initial setup is done.
Unlike data paths, or TCP/IP socket plumbing, here there isn't any great performance benefit and let us stick to a single plumbing mechanism for IP, either DLPI or non-DLPI-nemo, but not have both mechanisms and a fallback. Thirumalai > Erik >_______________________________________________ >networking-discuss mailing list >[email protected] > > _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
