Re: What should be the abstraction for ethernet switches?

[Zoltan Arnold NAGY <zoltan.arnold.nagy%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 9:56 AM, Lloyd Parkes
<lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost> wrote:
>
> On 11/05/2011, at 12:03 PM, Matt Thomas wrote:
>
>> How do they interact with the vlan and bridge interfaces?
>
> We may be able to get some ideas from the Cisco Nexus and VMware virtual 
> switch systems. They are supposed to have virtualised the control plane, and 
> we may be able to get useful ideas from their control plane model.
>
> I don't know anything about them other than dark mutterings coming from my 
> co-workers about the accuracy of the documentation.
While we're at it, we could have a look at OpenSolaris' network
virtualization code, which I kinda liked very
much.

Zoltan