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microsystems Systems Architecture Committee
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Subject: RBridges: Routing Bridges
Submitted by: James Carlson
File: PSARC/2009/596/opinion.ms
Date: June 17th, 2009
Committee: Sebastien Roy, James Carlson, Garrett
D'Amore, Mark Martin, Richard Matthews.
Product Approval Committee:
Solaris PAC
solaris-pac-opinion at sun.com
1. Summary
This project builds upon Solaris Bridging as defined in
PSARC 2008/055 to deliver a TRILL-based "RBridging" mechan-
ism.
2. Decision & Precedence Information
The project is approved as specified in references [1-7].
The project may be delivered in a Patch release of Solaris.
The project depends on the following other projects and may
not be delivered before them:
PSARC/2008/055
Solaris Bridging
PSARC/2009/344
Bridging Updates
PSARC/2008/352
IS-IS For OpenSolaris
PSARC/2007/587
Volo -- Low Latency Socket Framework
PSARC/2008/694
Volo Interfaces Amendment
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3. Interfaces
The project exports the following interfaces.
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| Interfaces Exported |
|______________________|________________________|______________________________|
|Interface | Classification | Comments |
|______________________|________________________|______________________________|
|dladm create-bridge -P| Committed | [3] |
|dladm modify-bridge -P| Committed | [3] |
|TRILL | Uncommitted | References [4], [5], and [6]|
|libdladm | Contracted Cons. Priv.| Used by trilld |
|AF_TRILL | Contracted Proj. Priv.| Used by trilld |
|<net/trill.h> | Contracted Proj. Priv.| Used by trilld |
|/etc/sock2path | Committed | Entry for AF_TRILL |
|/usr/sbin/trilld | Project Private | |
|trill.xml SMF manifest| Project Private | |
|kernel/socketmod/trill| Project Private | kernel TRILL module |
|______________________|________________________|______________________________|
The project imports the following interfaces.
_______________________________________________________________
| Interfaces Imported |
|__________|_______________________|__________________________|
|Interface | Classification | Comments |
|__________|_______________________|__________________________|
|Nemo/GLDv3| Consolidation Private| PSARC 2004/571, 2006/357|
|Volo | Consolidation Private| PSARC 2007/587, 2008/694|
|__________|_______________________|__________________________|
4. Opinion
The project was approved with little discussion. Note that
the trilld daemon delivered in the SFW consolidation uses
Contracted Private interfaces from the ON consolidation, and
a PSARC contract file [7] containing the terms of the con-
tract is located in the case directory.
5. Minority Opinion(s)
None.
6. Advisory Information
None
7. Appendices
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7.1. Appendix A: Technical Changes Required
None
7.2. Appendix B: Technical Changes Advised
None
7.3. Appendix C: Reference Material
Unless stated otherwise, path names are relative to the case
directory PSARC/2009/596/committed.materials.
1. RBridges Architecture
File: rbridges-arch.png
2. PSARC 20 Questions
File: rbridges-20q.txt
3. Draft dladm(1M) Man Page
File: dladm-new.txt
4. Rbridges: Base Protocol Specification
File: draft-ietf-trill-rbridge-protocol-12.txt
5. Rbridges: TRILL Header Options
File: draft-eastlake-trill-rbridge-options-01.txt
6. RBridges: Use of IS-IS
File: draft-eastlake-trill-rbridge-isis-02.txt
7. Contract for trilld use of Private Interfaces
File (in base directory): contract-01
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