2009/200 Solaris Simlinks
Artem Kachitchkine
Artem.Kachitchkin at Sun.COM
Thu Mar 26 16:46:48 PDT 2009
> Simulated links (simlinks) are pseudo GLDv3 network devices that aid in
> the creation of point-to-point network links on a system. They are
> intended to be a testing resource for OpenSolaris developers. Simlinks
> should help in developing test suites that can run with minimal network
> hardware and test protocols and codepaths that were previously not
> possible to test on a single system.
Enthusiastic +1 from someone who's been maintaining his own "simlink"
driver for some time now, though not as nicely integrated (mine is
called "nonet" and is configured via driver.conf properties).
There is no mention of zones, which I assume means everything just
works, but I'd like to confirm.
-Artem
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