I am just playing with the software bridge feature in OmniOS that allows to use OmniOS like a network switch.
Example: If you have 4 nics in OmniOS, you can use one as usual as uplink (assign an ip) then bridge this nic with the others. When you connect clients to the other nics, they can see the server, each other and everything that is on the uplink port.
Use cases now:
- Some 10G nics on the server with some 10G clients (no dedicated 10G switch is needed)
Near future!
There are Illumos drivers on the way for the Intel X710 with 1 or 2 x QSFP+/ 8 x 10G per nic. With one of these cards (they are quite affordable) and a QSFP+ to QSFP+ or 2 QSFP+ to 8 x SFP+ Copper QSFP+ cables you should be able to create high performance 10G or 40G lab or video editing installations without a 10G/40G switch - with up to 8 x 10G or 2 x 40G clients per nic.
You can enable a bridge manually, see
Bridging Overview - Oracle Solaris Administration: Network Interfaces and Network Virtualization
I have added the bridge feature in napp-it Pro/2016.05 dev in menu System > Network Eth
Comments especially about stability are welcome
see http://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/napp-it.pdf
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Example: If you have 4 nics in OmniOS, you can use one as usual as uplink (assign an ip) then bridge this nic with the others. When you connect clients to the other nics, they can see the server, each other and everything that is on the uplink port.
Use cases now:
- Some 10G nics on the server with some 10G clients (no dedicated 10G switch is needed)
Near future!
There are Illumos drivers on the way for the Intel X710 with 1 or 2 x QSFP+/ 8 x 10G per nic. With one of these cards (they are quite affordable) and a QSFP+ to QSFP+ or 2 QSFP+ to 8 x SFP+ Copper QSFP+ cables you should be able to create high performance 10G or 40G lab or video editing installations without a 10G/40G switch - with up to 8 x 10G or 2 x 40G clients per nic.
You can enable a bridge manually, see
Bridging Overview - Oracle Solaris Administration: Network Interfaces and Network Virtualization
I have added the bridge feature in napp-it Pro/2016.05 dev in menu System > Network Eth
Comments especially about stability are welcome
see http://www.napp-it.org/doc/downloads/napp-it.pdf
page 43
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