Steffen, It seems you are hitting 6853771 (VNIC creation can unexpectedly fail in the case of a random MAC address collision). See the CR for details, or this thread:
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=106368&tstart=1 Nicolas. Steffen Weiberle wrote: > I am updating the FAQ, and the old limit of 900 'public' VNICs is no > longer in place. I am at 7100 and counting on a single bge interface. I > take it there is no more limit? > > Interestingly, I hit an error around 5500, where the random MAC address > was not unique. I guess there is no collision detection and retry. > > dladm: vnic creation over bge3 failed: MAC address is already in use > > I am using 'dladm create-vnic -l bge3 -m auto $L', where $L is vnicXYZ > and XYZ is an increasing integer. > > In the meantime, I am over 10500 VNICs, and have had two MAC address > collisions. > > Steffen > _______________________________________________ > crossbow-discuss mailing list > crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/crossbow-discuss
