[crossbow-discuss] [xen-discuss] VNICs and wireless NICs

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 13:24 -0700, Rajagopal Kunhappan wrote:
> 
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 23:26 -0600, Nicolas Droux wrote:
> >   
> >> On Aug 13, 2007, at 12:02 AM, David Edmondson wrote:
> >>
> >>     
> >>>> Something else to consider is that in the future we are planning to
> >>>> allow multiple VNICs to share a single MAC address.
> >>>>         
> >>> How will packets be de-multiplexed (a simple IP address based
> >>> mechanism might not be sufficient)?
> >>>       
> >> This still has to be designed properly, but for DHCP we'll most  
> >> likely use client IDs to demultiplex the DHCP replies. For IP traffic  
> >> of course the unicast IP address(es) associated with the VNICs will  
> >> be used. Other type of traffic might require special processing (e.g.  
> >> ARP).
> >>
> >> Nicolas.
> >>
> >>     
> >
> > Btw, a bunch of the 10/100 legacy NICs can support multiple MAC
> > addresses fairly trivially.  Should updating this be something I should
> > be looking at?  If there was a simple test suite to validate this
> > feature, it would certainly help in getting the feature added.
> >   
> 
> There is no test suite :-(. But it can be tested easily by creating 
> VNICs and generating some traffic.

So you mentioned that the LDOMs folks wanted it on S10.  Does that mean
that there is some other consumer of this feature *today*?

Btw, this will need to be included in an expanded version of the NICDRV
test suite, once there is some not-to-difficult mechanism for it to
configure this feature.

	-- Garrett

> 
> -krgopi
> 
> >
> > 	-- Garrett
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