Re: What should be the abstraction for ethernet switches?

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Thu, 12 May 2011, Zoltan Arnold NAGY wrote:

> 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.

Or perhaps http://openvswitch.org/

It's even got a useful license.

--
Stephen