* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-04-05 11:25:46] >>>Ideally I'd expect the IPMP code to be a model of how to do this. >> >>IPMP is, in reality, a strange beast. Why you'd expect it to set any >>kind of precedent for how to write NIC drivers is something of a >>mystery to me, as IPMP operates almost entirely at layer 3. Hiding >>some of the implementation details of IPMP, as the Clearview project >>will do, seems like a good thing and isn't really related to the >>stability level of NIC driver interfaces. >> > > My view of IPMP is that it is functionality that is layered on top > of NICs - it is a virtual NIC that has the backing of real ones > behind it. It isn't doing any real I/O itself, it is passing off > packets to real NICs for sending and similarly, packets received via > an IPMP interface come via a real NIC first.
IPMP was never implemented as a "virtual NIC", which perhaps is where some of the confusion arises. dme. -- David Edmondson, Solaris Engineering, Sun Microsystems. _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
