The fundamental question is always: What problem are you really trying to solve?
On Jun 11, 2012, at 9:59 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: > Hello all, > > In OpenSolaris and its descendants it is possible to create > local zones (LZ) which share an IP stack with the global zone > (GZ) or have an exclusive IP stack. While exclusive stacks > have better separation between zones, the shared stacks may > yield higher performance comparable to loopback links. Are you trying to increase performance of inter-zone, but intra-machine, communication? Have you tried etherstubs, and assigning VNICs on the etherstub for each zone? Hmmm... I guess you have... > For example, now I was documenting how to pass several LZs > with a host-only networked connection (exclusive stacks on > an etherstub) to Internet through NAT on their GZ. This is, > apparently, not a way to go for zones with a shared stack - > because the GZ's stack would have a hard time defining itself > as the default route for those local zones (if the GZ is used > as a router and not some routing LZ with an exclusive stack). Again... what problem are you really trying to solve? Your theoretical construct of breaking stack instances apart from zones (or allowing multiple zones on a given stack instance) is interesting theoretically, but I'm not grasping what problem you're trying to solve. > This is not an RFE per se, but rather food for thought and > discussion - did anyone ponder about this? Are there reasons > not to do it? The sheer complexity of implementing, and worse, testing, such a generalization makes it difficult to recommend attempting it, IMHO. Dan ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
