Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 23:26 -0600, Nicolas Droux wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>
> Btw, a bunch of the 10/100 legacy NICs can support multiple MAC
> addresses fairly trivially. Should updating this be something I should
> be looking at? If there was a simple test suite to validate this
> feature, it would certainly help in getting the feature added.
>
There is no test suite :-(. But it can be tested easily by creating
VNICs and generating some traffic.
-krgopi
>
> -- Garrett
>
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