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1. Project: Clearview: Network Interface Coherence
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   4. Leaders
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   6. Files
   7. IPMP Rearchitecture
   8. IP Tunneling Device Driver
   9. Nemo Unification and Vanity Naming
   10. IP-Level Observability Devices
   11. Public DLPI API
   12. Snoop Filtering of VLAN-Tagged Packets
   13. Nemo MAC-Type Plugin Architecture
   14. Documentation
   15. Milestones
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   17. Presentations

OpenSolaris Project: Clearview: Network Interface Coherence

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Clearview is a project to rationalize, unify, and enhance the way network interfaces are handled in Solaris at the programmatic and administrative levels. While this sounds a bit opaque, the effects of ensuring that all network interfaces have these attributes are far-reaching and eminently practical. For example, as a result of the Clearview project, customers will be able to:

• Observe all IP layer network traffic, including loopback, IPMP group and IP tunnel traffic.
• Observe all IP layer network traffic flowing to and from a zone.
• Administrate all network interfaces using dladm(1M).
• Use VLANs and form link aggregations on all Ethernet devices.
• Use IPMP with technologies such as DHCP and routing protocols.
• Select names for network interfaces, easing migration of network configuration information between systems or zones, and markedly improving Dynamic Reconfiguration.

… and more.

This short presentation gives an overview of the projects goals, the specific architectural problems it aims to solve, and the components that make up the solution.

This illustration shows the relationships between links and interfaces on the software layer of the networking stack, as well as with associated devices on the hardware layer. The drawing also shows how features of the Clearview project, such as vanity naming and IPMP rearchitecture, would be implemented in future networking scenarios.

We are now hard at work on designing and implementing the key components of project Clearview that deliver the capabilities listed above. These components are:

• IPMP Rearchitecture
• IP Tunneling Device Driver
• Nemo Unification and Vanity Naming (UV)
• IP-Level Observability Devices

In order to complete these components, the following supporting work is included in the list of deliverables for the project:

• Public DLPI API
• Nemo MAC-Type Plugin Architecture
• Snoop Filtering of VLAN-Tagged Packets

More on each of these components can be found through the links above. The Clearview project umbrella description is useful for understanding how these pieces all fit together.

Please direct any discussion concerning this project to the Clearview discussion list, clearview dash discuss at opensolaris dot org.

Blogs

meem - Creating Shell-Friendly Parsable Output

Sep 2, 4:07 PM

Creating Shell-Friendly Parsable Output Being able to easily write scripts from the command-line has long been regarded as one of UNIX's core strengths. However, over the years, surprisingly little ...

meem - GNOME Home

Aug 20, 4:46 PM

GNOME Home Yes, it's been a whole year since I last posted a blog entry. Between moving from Boston to San Francisco (metro, anyway), countless urgent matters (both professional and personal), and ...

seb - Clearview Vanity Naming BigAdmin Article

Jun 5, 11:47 AM

I expanded upon one of my previous blog entries on network datalink vanity naming in OpenSolaris into a more thorough article with more examples.  The result is the following BigAdmin article: ...

seb - Maybe some Ice Cream with That OpenSolaris

May 30, 11:28 AM

Well, the pickles and beer in the refrigerator were not enough to bribe my Ferrari into installing OpenSolaris.  Maybe some Ice Cream will coax it into behaving better.  Luckily, the cleaning people ...

seb - Not too Much Mustard on that Ferrari Please

May 30, 10:59 AM

My Acer Ferrari 3400 cannot go through an OpenSolaris installation without overheating and powering itself down.  Because OpenSolaris has no power management for this laptop, the CPU runs at 100% ...