On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 03:52:12PM -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 12:36 -0700, Peter Memishian wrote: > > > > Created vnic's and etherstub's and they are displayed using dladm > > > > show-links > > > > but when the server is rebooted a 'dladm show-link' is empty although > > the > > > > vnic and etherstub devices are still there and function properly. > > > > > > That's because the network/physical:nwam service doesn't do "dladm > > > up-vnic" like network/physical:default does. It's a bug in NWAM that > > > will be fixed in "NWAM Phase 1". > > > > I'm a bit surprised by this -- I thought that VNICs were not supported > > under NWAM phase 1? > > I believe that they will be to some degree (this was one of the topics > discussed during the NWAM Phase 1 PSARC commitment review). Perhaps > someone from the NWAM team can chime in and explain how they'll be > handling them (or we can scoot over to nwam-discuss at opensolaris.org).
Seb is correct. For NWAM Phase 1, we will include the "dladm up-vnic" call in network/physical:nwam's start method; and once vnics are created, they will be viewed by nwam as ordinary physical links, and can thus be manipulated in nwam profiles. What you will *not* be able to do via the nwam tools is actually create vnics; for that, you will need to use the existing dladm interface. -renee
