On 1/26/16 11:10 , David Preece wrote: > >> On 27/01/2016, at 8:09 AM, Robert Mustacchi <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Are you referring to two different etherstubs on the same physical host >> or on different physical hosts? > > Different.
You certainly can do something like that. I know folks who did things like snoop for unsent packets, encapsulate them and forward them on. However, instead, we developed a different abstraction to take care of this which we call an 'overlay' which can be created and managed with dladm on top of which vnics and the like can be created. While it functions like an etherstub on the local host, frames will be encapsulated and sent off to remote hosts based on configuration settings. Effectively, creating 'overlay networks'. This is how we implement fabrics in SDC/Triton, which is basically point-to-point VXLAN tunnels while SDC controls the directory. You can find more information on overlays starting at the following manual page: https://smartos.org/man/5/overlay. Robert ------------------------------------------- smartos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/184463/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/184463/25769125-55cfbc00 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=25769125&id_secret=25769125-7688e9fb Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
