From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6] net: introduce ethernet teaming device Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:51:06 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20111004.135106.65049103540781494.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1317737703-19457-1-git-send-email-jpirko@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, bhutchings@solarflare.com, shemminger@vyatta.com, fubar@us.ibm.com, andy@greyhouse.net, tgraf@infradead.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, mirqus@gmail.com, kaber@trash.net, greearb@candelatech.com, jesse@nicira.com To: jpirko@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:45377 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932845Ab1JDRxe (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Oct 2011 13:53:34 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1317737703-19457-1-git-send-email-jpirko@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jiri Pirko Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 16:15:03 +0200 > This patch introduces new network device called team. It supposes to be > very fast, simple, userspace-driven alternative to existing bonding > driver. > > Userspace library called libteam with couple of demo apps is available > here: > https://github.com/jpirko/libteam > Note it's still in its dipers atm. > > team<->libteam use generic netlink for communication. That and rtnl > suppose to be the only way to configure team device, no sysfs etc. > > In near future python binding for libteam will be introduced. Also > daemon providing arpmon/miimon active-backup functionality will > be introduced. All what's necessary is already implemented in kernel team > driver. > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko I just want to say that, besides the implementation detail feedback you've received thus far, I really like this stuff. Please keep working on it!