On May 4, 2009, at 2:59 PM, sagun shakya wrote: > Hi, > > I have been trying to run a dhcp server on an exclusive IP zone. The > exclusive IP zone I created is running over a vnic. > bash-3.2# dladm show-vnic dhcp1 > LINK OVER SPEED MACADDRESS > MACADDRTYPE VID > dhcp1 bge0 100 2:8:20:23:68:1f > random 0 > > > In the zone that is running the dhcp-server: > bash-3.2# ifconfig dhcp1 > dhcp1: > flags=201000863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,CoS> > mtu 1500 index 2 > inet 172.0.156.1 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 172.0.156.255 > ether 2:8:20:23:68:1f > > > In order to get the dhcp-server running I did make changes as > mentioned in this thread: > http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5236367 > > Although the dhcp-server is running and the server does see > DHCPDISCOVER broadcast packet sent by the dhcp client. It is not > assigning a IP address. Is it not possible to run a dhcp-server over > a VNIC?
I don't see why not. If the DHCP server is getting the requests but not assigning an IP, this could be pointing some issue with the DHCP server. I'd suggest looking into that first. Nicolas. > > > Thanks, > > Sagun > _______________________________________________ > crossbow-discuss mailing list > crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/crossbow-discuss -- Nicolas Droux - Solaris Kernel Networking - Sun Microsystems, Inc. nicolas.droux at sun.com - http://blogs.sun.com/droux
