[ldoms-discuss] Network connectivity between guest and control

[Victor Engle]

Thanks Liam! It is S10U4 and the work-around from the blog fixed my
problem. I unplumbed the physical and gave it's IP to vsw0 and then
things worked as expected.

Regards,
Vic

On 10/20/07, Liam Merwick <Liam.Merwick at sun.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Vic,
>
> Vic Engle wrote:
> > This is a strange problem. My control domain has e1000g2 configured with IP address 10.60.181.11. On the control domain I created a virtual switch interface associated with e1000g2 and it is configured with IP address 10.60.181.230. I can access the control domain via both interfaces.
> >
> > So then I created a guest domain and added vnet1 to the guest with vnet1 associated with the vsw previously created. Next I jumpstarted the guest using this command...
> >
> > "boot vnet1 - install"
> >
> > This worked well and now I can access the guest from another host via the IP I assigned which is 10.60.181.231.
> >
> > The problem is that from the control domain I seem to have no IP connectivity to the guest even though I know the guest is working normally on the network. All 2 IPs are in the same subnet so no routing should be required.
> >
> >>From the control domain I can access the guest only via the vxx on port 5000.
> >
> > Is there any additional configuration needed to make IP between control and guest work via the vsw?
>
> Yes, you need to plumb the vsw. This is documented in the Admin and Beginner
> Guides (search for "plumb" - a few different scenarios are listed).
>
> I'm not sure what OS you are running - if it is S10U4 make sure to check out
> http://blogs.sun.com/narayan/entry/configuring_ldoms_vswitch_following_a
> (this bug is fixed in OpenSolaris and will be backported to S10)
>
> -- Liam
>
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