Thanks Girish:
  dladm create-vnic -l rge0 -m random -r 'allowed vendor OUI address' vnic5

dladm: invalid MAC address




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From: Girish Moodalbail <[email protected]>
To: Mike DeMarco <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Wed, October 28, 2009 10:42:23 AM
Subject: Re: [networking-discuss] dladm create-vnic -m

On 10/28/09 10:35, Mike DeMarco wrote:
> I need to setup a vnic using dladm and need to have a sun valid mac address 
> assigned to it.
> If I do:
> dladm create-vnic -l rge0 -m factory vnic0
> 
> dladm: vnic creation over rge0 failed: operation not supported
> 
> dladm create-vnic -l rge0 -m random vnic5
> 
> works and created a vnic but with a mac address that does not belong to sun. 
> At work they have detection software running that flags non vendor mac 
> addresses so I need to be able to assign a valid sun mac address to this vnic.
> 
> How can I get this to work?

One way would be to use the  '-r prefix' option.

i.e.
dladm create-vnic -l rge0 -m random -r 'allowed vendor OUI address' vnic5

~Girish


      
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