I think you need the full VNIC implementation from Crossbow. It hasn't 
delivered yet. The implementation of VNICs in Nevada today is more like 
"VNIC-lite". But stay tuned.

-- Garrett

Kugutsumen wrote:
> I am reposting this in the crossbow discussion which might seem more 
> appropriate...
>
> I have read all the documents at 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/xen/docs and some outdated blog 
> entries. I can't seem to find current documentation on how xen networking is 
> implemented on solaris.
>
> My solaris dom0 has only one physical network interface.
>
> I need to have each domU network interface bridged to a separate vnic with 
> private IP addresses; this is similar to host-only network in vmware. I can 
> do that on my linux dom0 using dummy interfaces.
>
> I can't have them bridge to the same physical nic for security reasons. 
>
> Also my ISP only knows about the MAC address of the physical nic and all my 
> public IP addresses are only useable with that mac address; I will do full 
> nat or port forwarding to connect the domUs to the internet if need be. 
>
>
>
> I looked at the way vnic are created by xen (using /usr/lib/vna nic mac ) and 
> it doesn't seem to let me create a vnic that is not attached to a physical 
> interface. I really need something like linux dummy interfaces.
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