Girish Moodalbail writes:
> bash-3.2# dladm show-link
> LINK        CLASS    MTU    STATE    PROMISC    OVER
> e1000g0     phys     1501       up           off                --
> e1000g1     phys     1502       up           on                --

That (plus or minus some column alignment) seems fine.

How will this work with the various sorts of virtual interfaces and
VLANs?

I assume that if someone puts a regular link into promiscuous mode,
then all of the regular VNICs (including those inside a zone) are in
promiscuous mode.  But do VLANs appear as "in promiscuous mode" if the
underlying interface is set that way?  After all, listeners on the
underlying interface can see the VLAN traffic.

If a VNIC is in promiscuous mode, is the underlying link marked that
way as well even though no clients of the underlying link are using it
that way?  Does putting one VNIC into promiscuous mode also put the
others on that same underlying link into promiscuous mode (as one can
listen to others)?

Iterate the above questions for both VLANs and virtual drivers such as
those used for Xen.

-- 
James Carlson, Solaris Networking              <james.d.carlson at sun.com>
Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive        71.232W   Vox +1 781 442 2084
MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757   42.496N   Fax +1 781 442 1677

Reply via email to