[crossbow-discuss] Re: creating a vnic to represent the factory MAC address

[Nicolas Droux]

On Oct 2, 2006, at 11:37 PM, David Edmondson wrote:

>>> So if I want to create 3 vnics and use the bge interface as well, I
>>> should be opening 'bge0', 'vnic1', 'vnic2' and 'vnic3'?
>>
>> With the current bits, yes. With the changes I'm working on and will
>> be released in a future code drop, only VNICs will be allowed to be
>> created on the underlying NIC. So you'll have to create a new
>> 'vnic4' and use it instead of 'bge0' in your example above.
>
> The actual mechanism for creating 'vnic4' needs a bit of thought in
> order that it works well with the underlying MAC address manipulation
> (which I guess leads us back to Sunay's original comment).

Yes, it's currently still work in progress and the pieces will fall  
into place. When the final implementation of the dladm(1M) -m option  
is available, you will be able to specify that the factory MAC  
address of bge0 must be used for vnic4, for example.

Nicolas.

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