Ah, so I can use VLAns. How would I do it? At this point, my main interest is 
to get it working for student use of ipfilter, I can upgrade to VNICs when they 
become available.

If the changes I need to make are major, gentle step-by-step guidance would be 
very helpful.

Thanks
Manish


On Sat, 19 May 2007 08:48:32 -0400, Dong-Hai Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> exclusive-IP zones can use:
> 1. physical link
> 2. VLAN, eg, e1000g33001
> 3. vnic (not in Nevada yet, you can access the Crossbow bits at: 
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/)
>
> In your case, you only have one e1000g0, you can't assign it to a zone (you 
> can
> use it if you unplumb it in the global zone. :-) ), using VLAN will be a 
> choice.
> However, is you only have one machine, I think trying Crossbow bits is a 
> better
> choice, playing with vnic will be fun! and you don't have to setup VLANs.
>
> Best,
>
> Donghai.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Manish Agrawal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Saturday, May 19, 2007 9:07 am
> Subject: [networking-discuss] dladm create-vnic not available in build 63?
> To: networking-discuss@opensolaris.org
>
>> I am trying to create zones with exclusive IP interfaces on a Dell
>> Optiplex. My interpretation is that before the zones can be
>> created, the interfaces must be defined using dladm create-vnic.
>> These interfaces would then be used as the physical addresses for
>> each zone configuration.
>>
>> I am using OpenSolaris build 63. But why am I unable to create vnics?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Manish
>>
>> -bash-3.00# dladm show-link
>> e1000g0         type: non-vlan  mtu: 1500       device: e1000g0
>>
>> -bash-3.00# dladm create-vnic -d e1000g0 -m 0:1:2:3:4:5 1
>> dladm: unknown subcommand 'create-vnic'
>> usage:  dladm <subcommand> <args> ...
>>        show-link       [-p] [-s [-i <interval>]] [<name>]
>>        show-dev        [-p] [-s [-i <interval>]] [<dev>]
>>
>>        create-aggr     [-t] [-R <root-dir>] [-P <policy>] [-l <mode>]
>>                        [-T <time>] [-u <address>] -d <dev> ... <key>
>>        modify-aggr     [-t] [-R <root-dir>] [-P <policy>] [-l <mode>]
>>                        [-T <time>] [-u <address>] <key>
>>        delete-aggr     [-t] [-R <root-dir>] <key>
>>        add-aggr        [-t] [-R <root-dir>] -d <dev> ... <key>
>>        remove-aggr     [-t] [-R <root-dir>] -d <dev> ... <key>
>>        show-aggr       [-pL][-s [-i <interval>]] [<key>]
>>
>>        scan-wifi       [-p] [-o <field>,...] [<name>]
>>        connect-wifi    [-e <essid>] [-i <bssid>] [-k <key>,...] [-
>> s wep]
>>                        [-a open|shared] [-b bss|ibss] [-c] [-m a|b|g]
>>                        [-T <time>] [<name>]
>>        disconnect-wifi [-a] [<name>]
>>        show-wifi       [-p] [-o <field>,...] [<name>]
>>
>>        set-linkprop    [-t] [-R <root-dir>]  -p
>> <prop>=<value>[,...] <name>
>>        reset-linkprop  [-t] [-R <root-dir>] [-p <prop>,...] <name>
>>        show-linkprop   [-cP][-p <prop>,...] <name>
>>
>>        create-secobj   [-t] [-R <root-dir>] [-f <file>] -c <class>
>> <secobj>        delete-secobj   [-t] [-R <root-dir>] <secobj>[,...]
>>        show-secobj     [-pP][<secobj>,...]
>>
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