From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 12 23:56:57 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67A5216A419 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:56:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Received: from mail.bitblocks.com (ns1.bitblocks.com [64.142.15.60]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6157813C459 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:56:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bakul@bitblocks.com) Received: from bitblocks.com (localhost.bitblocks.com [127.0.0.1]) by mail.bitblocks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE6D45B99; Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:56:56 -0800 (PST) To: Julian Elischer In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:47:02 PST." <476072F6.1080406@elischer.org> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:56:56 -0800 From: Bakul Shah Message-Id: <20071212235656.CE6D45B99@mail.bitblocks.com> Cc: FreeBSD Net Subject: Re: bikeshed for all! X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:56:57 -0000 > >> and the command should be called "????" > > > > We called it vhost since to all other hosts it behaved like a > > host on a network. In our implementation each virtual host > > had a set of interfaces and one routing table and you could > > actually "route" packets between these hosts among other > > things. You could even have for routing daemons etc. on each > > one. > > WHo's "we" ? > :-) That doesn't really matter, does it?! Anyway, it was Torrent Networking in Maryland; long since digested by Ericsson. We built "high speed" routers (high speed for the late 90s) and provided bgp, ispf, isis, etc. for a variety of network interfaces + a Cisco compatible CLI. vhost (& also vnet for virtual nets between vhosts) was done mainly for testing.