Nicolas Williams wrote:
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.
Yes, multiple virtual routers, DNS servers, firewalls, etc.
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.
Crossbow VNICs can be used to construct virtual networks within a single
host. These virtual networks can be built within a host to "connect"
these virtual network machines. See also
http://opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/Docs/virtualswitch.pdf
Nicolas.
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Nicolas Droux - Solaris Networking - Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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