I'm wondering if VNICs don't require the NIC to respond to multiple MAC addresses. In which case, perhaps the NIC's storage for additional MAC addresses to respond to, or the associated logic, might have been damaged?
I'm guessing that might account for working when promiscuous (since it "hears" everything then) or in a simpler scenario, but not the way you want it to (assuming it did work that way before the power bump). Anyway, not all hardware vs software issues are as obvious as one might wish... > Are you sure it's not hardware? When snoop is run it > will tell your > NIC driver to enable 'promiscuous' mode, i.e. stop > filtering received > packets on MAC address. So is your h/w definitely > programmed with the > correct MAC address? > > Paul > n 24 July 2010 02:38, Andrew Chace > <andrew.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's definitely not a hardware problem: I disabled > nwam, and deleted all VNICs and the problem went > away. I'm still trying to figure out how and why > VNICs are preventing the NIC from working correctly. > > -- > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > > _______________________________________________ > > networking-discuss mailing list > > networking-disc...@ope -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list networking-discuss@opensolaris.org
