2009/200 Solaris Simlinks

Peter Memishian peter.memishian at sun.com
Fri Mar 27 09:54:42 PDT 2009


 > > vlink  === virtual link
 > 
 > That's right out.  These are actual "physical" NIC instances, unlike
 > VNICs.
 > 
 > It would be horrible to have "vlinks" that actually behave like NICs
 > and "vnics" that behave only like links!

Agreed; vlink would be highly problematic.

We seem to be doing a good job coming up with names that we definitely
shouldn't use :-)  I still hope Rishi can put forth a new name for these
handy objects.  (Naming is hard -- but important.)

-- 
meem



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