Mkvlan_enhancements

Note: this is an xCAT design document, not an xCAT user document. If you are an xCAT user, you are welcome to glean information from this design, but be aware that it may not have complete or up to date procedures.

Required Reviewers

• Linda Mellor
• Bin XA Xu (Platform)

Required Approvers

• Guang Cheng Li

Overview

Needed mkvlan enhancements (TBD). But here a come comments about current support.

Currently it only supports Cisco and some modules of BNT switches (EN4093,G8000,G8124,G8264, 8264E). To support more BNT modules, we need to update the OID table because each BNT modules uses different OIDs for the same function (a very bad design by BNT). And to support other switch vendors like Juniper, a significant code change needs to be done because currently Juniper does not support vlan function through SNMP interface. We have to use its own libraries to have it done. This needs framework change in our vlan code.