On Thu, 2013-01-31 at 16:41 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Jaroslav Reznik (jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > = Features/NetworkManagerBridging = > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NetworkManagerBridging > > > > Feature owner(s): Pavel Šimerda <psimerda at redhat.com>, Dan Williams <dcbw > > at redhat dot com> > > > > NetworkManager should be able to configure bridge interfaces with commonly used > > options and recognize their existing configuration on startup without > > disrupting their operation. > > > > == Detailed description == > > A bridge connects two or more physical or virtual network interfaces to allow > > network traffic to flow between the two interfaces at a low level. Bridging is > > commonly used to connect Virtual Machines to the outside world; a bridge > > interface is created, to which a physical interface (typically ethernet) is > > assigned as a slave, and a virtual interface (typically TAP) is created and > > also assigned to the bridge as a slave, and then given to the Virtual Machine. > > Thus traffic from one or more VMs can be combined and sent out of the machine > > via the physical interface. > > > > This setup is currently done either manually using ifcfg files and ifup/ifdown, > > or by a tool like libvirt/netcf. NetworkManager should be able to configure > > bridge interfaces and their slaves with the same functionality as provided by > > libvirt, and should recognize and not disrupt existing bridge connections when > > it starts up. > > This (and the bonding feature) could stand to be more clearly stated how it > differs from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NMEnterpriseNetworking. > From reading it, it implies that it's making the configuration of them > first-class NM citizens throughout NM's interfaces, as opposed to just > handling manually configured ones. Yeah, pretty much it, though the Bridging feature is also about actually implementing bridging support. Bonding was already done a while back, so the F19 feature is about making it more cooperative. I'll see what I can do to clarify. Dan -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
