crossbow discuss - Oct 2006 - [Fwd: SVOSUG - Thur. 10/26 IP Instances, innovating VLANs and Solaris Containers]

Everyone is welcome to join in person at the Santa Clara campus, or dial 
in the
number below.


    Kais.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	SVOSUG - Thur. 10/26 IP Instances, innovating VLANs and 
Solaris Containers
Date: 	Mon, 23 Oct 2006 03:14:54 -0700
From: 	Alan DuBoff <Alan.DuBoff at sun.com>
Reply-To: 	Alan DuBoff <Alan.DuBoff at sun.com>
Organization: 	Solaris x86 Engineering
To: 	[SVOSUG] Alan DuBoff <Alan.DuBoff at sun.com>



This Thursday, October 26th, 7:30pm-10:00pm

Silicon Valley OpenSolaris User Group presents Sun Distinguished Engineer Erik 
Nordmark, speaking on IP Instances.

The IP Instances project is taking zones networking to the next level.
In the current Solaris 10 implementation of zones there is a single
instance of IP, even though each zone has its own IP addresses and 
transport port number spaces. This is sufficient for multiple zones 
being on the same VLAN or LAN. But when there is a need to connect 
different zones to different VLANs or LANs, there is often a need to 
provide complete IP-level isolation inside the box.

IP Instances provides such isolation, and as a side-effect provides more 
IP features for non-global zones (DHCP, IPsec, IP Filter).

Together with Crossbow (which Sunay Tripathi spoke on in August), IP Instances 
will push the limits on networking and provide state of the art solutions on 
OpenSolaris.

In addition, we''ll have a short presentation by Sangeeta Misra on the
Surya
project.

Surya will deliver a fast forwarding table lookup scheme, a streamlined V4 
forwarding path, and API functions for use by IP Filter. Surya speeds up 
forwarding throughput significantly.

Both of these projects will help Solaris networking substantially, and could 
have a big impact on many applications running on Solaris within our 
community. 

 When: Thursday, Oct. 26th, 2006
Where: Sun''s Santa Clara Campus Auditorium (upstairs)
 What: IP Instances, innovating VLANs and Solaris Containers
 Time: 7:30pm-10:00pm
  Map: http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/aland/scasj_dirmap.pdf

Call-in Info:

Toll Free: 866-545-5227
Intnl/pay: 865-673-6950
Conference: 809-64-14

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Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems
Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group