On 3/6/07, Alexey Eremenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, creating a Use Case for 100 Bridged interfaces might be > interesting... (might be TAP or non-TAP) > Pablo: The problem is that I can't show the real work I do, since that's a secret.
Fortunately, I can show a tip of the iceberg of what I can do. Here is a quick picture that a draw up in several minutes. http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=check_download&ufid=F25946D34033CD35&key=3720f2a176034221ac7a63054d256fc70daa61bd Here you see a networking topology model (primitive diagram - without IPs), that could be simulated inside single PC (provided the PC is powerful enough of course - actually - Servers can handle the task). Every link on this topology needs to have host interface connection, because I tend to run multiple emulators at once, and interconnecting between them... Say Dynamips/VMware and VirtualPC - all of them can be interconnected together. VirtualBox cannot participate in such a network, because I cannot join a VBox VM into this topology, because it uses Windows bridging which is limited to only one bridge. I need a solution, that is scalable enough to handle hundreds of connections simulataneously. In other words, I use Host-Networking to communicate between different emulators, instead of between external world and an internal one. While some emulators provide "internal" networking feature, you cannot use it to communicate across different emulators. Creating a virtual NIC is the only option here. (by way of MS loopback or by way of TAP, doesn't matter) Note that some Servers have dozens of physical connections. Think if you have 5 PCI slots, and each has a Quad-Port adapter, that totals to 20 ! The solution must be scalable enough to support those extremes. -Alexey _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
