Hi Garrett,

Excellent news. The ge interface is built into the v880 and v890 
motherboards and is fibre!

Thanks,
Steffen

Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Steffen Weiberle wrote:
> 
>> David Edmondson wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 02:18:37PM +0100, Tony Marshall wrote:
>>>
>>>    
>>>
>>>> However after I have configured the zone with the ip-type=exclusive
>>>> setting in update 4 and removed the address portion of the net
>>>> configuration for the zone however it does not configure the
>>>> physical interface in the zone. The error message I receive is
>>>> "WARNING: unable to hold network interface 'ce101000' .: Invalid
>>>> argument" Looking through sunsolve there is nothing that I can see
>>>> there.
>>>>       
>>>
>>> The NIC that you assign to the zone must be one with a GLDv3
>>> driver. ce is not such.
>>>     
>>
>>
>> I maintain a list at 
>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/faq/#ipinst_which_nic
>>   
> 
> 
> Your list is stale.. :-)
> 
> The following should be added to your "they support IP instances" (and 
> all other standard GLDv3 features), as of b73.
> 
> eri
> hme
> qfe
> iprb
> rtls
> afe
> mxfe
> dmfe
> 
> That leaves:
> 
> ce
> ge
> dnet
> ixge ?
> elx
> pcelx
> spwr
> 
> I may have a look at ge, but I don't have any other fiber based NICs 
> (and I don't even have a ge board), so it might be hard to do.  (Its 
> pretty much the same thing that I did for eri, since they both have the 
> same MAC controller and only differ in the transceiver.
> 
> dnet could easily be done, and would be, if I had any hardware that I 
> could test with it.  (I'd also update it for sparc and amd64 at the same 
> time.)  If anyone wants to "donate" (especially one of the 4 port cards) 
> a card to me, I might have a look at it.
> 
> elx and pcelx can't support full size VLAN frames, so until clearview 
> adds support for GLDv3 devices that don't support VLANs, I can't convert 
> them.
> 
> I've not looked at spwr.  I've never seen one of them.
> 
>     -- Garrett
> 
>> Steffen
>>
>>  
>>
>>> dme.
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