Re: VNICs and wireless NICs

On Aug 13, 2007, at 12:02 AM, David Edmondson wrote:

>> Something else to consider is that in the future we are planning to
>> allow multiple VNICs to share a single MAC address.
>
> How will packets be de-multiplexed (a simple IP address based
> mechanism might not be sufficient)?

This still has to be designed properly, but for DHCP we'll most  
likely use client IDs to demultiplex the DHCP replies. For IP traffic  
of course the unicast IP address(es) associated with the VNICs will  
be used. Other type of traffic might require special processing (e.g.  
ARP).

Nicolas.

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