On Sep 20, 2006, at 8:12 AM, David Boyes wrote:
About the only thing missing is OSA Express L2 support, AFAIK -- which is really useful to support VSWITCHes.
Can Flex do this either, yet? I would assume that since there's now an Open Source QDIO Ethernet driver for Linux, that that gives both the Flex and Herc designers enough information about how it works to implement an emulation of the device (whether this would be crippled and miss some of the neat features, I do not know--if there are things you can do on an OSA-E that you can't do from Linux, then those might not be in the driver). I know that Fish looked at it a bit on the Herc side (although it's not near the top of his queue), and I suspect that the Flex guys are working on it, but as far as I'm aware, support has not been announced. If I missed the announcement, then that's great. (L2/L3 should be relatively easy to code, at least in a Linuxish environment, because you can use the tap driver for L2 and the tun driver for L3 on the host side; this is exactly analogous to running OpenVPN in bridged or routed mode.) Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
