Proposed F19 Feature: Network Team driver - Update for new features

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Jan 30 18:11:39 UTC 2013


Jaroslav Reznik (jreznik at redhat.com) said: 
> = Features/TeamDriverUpdate =
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeamDriverUpdate
> 
> Feature owner(s): Jiri Pirko <jiri at pirko.cz>
> 
> Network Team driver allows multiple network interfaces to be teamed together 
> and act like a single one. This update adds several kind of new features to 
> it.
> 
> == Detailed description ==
> The goal is to extend current Team driver experience in Fedora. In order to do 
> that, following features will be implemented:
> 
> * ARP link validation over VLAN
> * Transmit hashing involving L4 headers
> * Support for NICs which do now allow mac change on run
> * Load balancing support for incoming traffic
> * Corrected carrier detection

These seem like reasonable changes for the team driver, but I'm not seeing
how this merits a full Feature compared to the feature for its initial
addition.

Bill


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