On 08/13/09 18:17, Nicolas Droux wrote: > 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.
Thank Nicolas. And my system (v210 running 116) 'locked up' (dladm would not return) with 10841 VNICs. A reboot never gets beyond "Hardware watchdog enabled" on a non-verbose boot. Steffen > > > 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
