On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:34:29AM -0700, David Bustos wrote: > Quoth Nicolas Droux on Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0600: > > 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. > > What does this mean?
I took it to mean that one could have multiple logical routers in one system. Without Crossbow that couldn't be done. Incidentally, I wonder if it may be useful to use this, along with virtual (loopback) point-to-point and broadcast interfaces to model and simulate complex networks. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
