[crossbow-discuss] help configuring a ce trunk for use by nonglobalzones

[Skip Ramsay]

Thanks Fritz!

That sounds like it will work perfectly!  I'll try it today.  Where did 
you put theses commands, ie. rc2.d/S99xxx or rc3.d/S99xxx ?
-skip


Fritz.Wittwer at swisscom.com wrote:
> Hi Skip,
> I have a similar setup,
>
> I solved this by bringing the interface up with an valid address from a
> local zone first, then add the default route for this address and
> afterwards assigning the address 0.0.0.0
>
>
> # temporarily assigns an address so we can add the default route
> ifconfig ce3 <LocalZoneIP>/27 deprecated
>
> route add default <LocalZoneDefaultRoute>
> # remove the address again
> ifconfig ce3 0.0.0.0
>
>
> So I end up with an interface with more than one default route, but the
> global zone does not use it at all, and each local zone has only one
> valid default route.
>
>
> 	Fritz
>
>  
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:crossbow-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Skip
> Ramsay
> Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 6:55 PM
> To: crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org
> Subject: [crossbow-discuss] help configuring a ce trunk for use by
> nonglobalzones
>
> I am trying to configure a V890 to have a management port on 1 network
> using the onboard eri and 2 nonglobal zones each using a ce port on
> another network.  Do the the constraint of the ce NIC not being GLDv3, I
> have created a trunk consisting of ce0 and ce1 in the global zone.  This
> should create a fat pipe in the global zone which both nonglobal zones
> can effectively share.  Because I don't want the global zone to have
> it's own IP addr on this second network, I have added a startup script
> (S98xxx) which simply plumbs the trunk head.  When zone boots, the zone
> IP is established (Shared IP) and all is well - so far ...
>
> The problem is that the nonglobal zones needs a default route to work.  
> I tried putting a route add default script in a S99xxx file hoping that
> it would be picked up after the the zone boots but no joy.  I can
> manually add the route add default command but how or where can I get it
> into the system startup?
>
> tia
> -skip
>
>   


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