> And so we have a clearview project to address snoop for loopback
 > because it doesn't work as expected and...the lo0 on Solaris seems
 > out of place in terms of design - an abberation, if you like.

There's nothing out-of-place or aberrant about IFF_VIRTUAL interfaces.
 > 
 > If IPMP is just more of the same then that part of Clearview is
 > just perpetuating that design badness, unless we are going to use
 > it as a model for others to deliver logical interfaces into Solaris?

I don't know what logical interfaces have to do with anything, nor do I
know of any "design badness" here.

 > If Solaris, today, didn't have any IPMP functionality and someone
 > came to you and said they wanted to build something into Solaris
 > that delivers what IPMP does today, how would you recommend they
 > go about it?

The same way I've proposed with the rearchitecture, without the backward
compatibility constraints.

-- 
meem
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