Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:56:56 -0800 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: bikeshed for all! Message-ID: <20071212235656.CE6D45B99@mail.bitblocks.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:47:02 PST." <476072F6.1080406@elischer.org>
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> >> 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.
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