From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Lezcano Subject: Re: Network virtualization/isolation Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 13:00:54 +0100 Message-ID: <45643BF6.1000305@fr.ibm.com> References: <453F8800.9070603@fr.ibm.com> <45408397.8070404@fr.ibm.com> <20061026085659.33b4c6dd@freekitty> <200610271134.56830.dim@openvz.org> <4541CCF4.4050306@fr.ibm.com> <1162391707.5251.78.camel@jzny2> <4559DE01.5090109@fr.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Dmitry Mishin Return-path: Received: from mtagate5.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.154]:13715 "EHLO mtagate5.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1162055AbWKVLA5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 06:00:57 -0500 Received: from d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.167.49]) by mtagate5.de.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAMB0tw5164266 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 11:00:55 GMT Received: from d12av01.megacenter.de.ibm.com (d12av01.megacenter.de.ibm.com [9.149.165.212]) by d12nrmr1607.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.13.6/8.13.6/NCO v8.1.1) with ESMTP id kAMB4NGs2920518 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:04:23 +0100 Received: from d12av01.megacenter.de.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d12av01.megacenter.de.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id kAMB0sqP007434 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2006 12:00:55 +0100 To: hadi@cyberus.ca, Stephen Hemminger , netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4559DE01.5090109@fr.ibm.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Daniel Lezcano wrote: >> Then a matrix of how each requires what modifications in the network >> code. Of course all players need to agree that the description is >> accurate. >> Is there such a document? >> >> cheers, >> jamal > > Hi, > > the attached document describes the network isolation at the layer 2 and > at the layer 3, it presents the pros and cons of the different > approaches, their common points and the impacted network code. > I hope it will be helpful :) > > Cheers. > > -- Daniel Hi, does the document clarify the layer 2 / layer 3 approaches ? Does it bring some elements of response ? Is there missing something in it ? Do you need more informations ? Regards -- Daniel