Snooping on a VNIC with ipv6 unplumbed , one will not see any ipv6 NS/NA packets while ipv6 is being plumbed up on another VNIC with the same physical NIC . You can snoop this traffic after the VNIC has been plumbed up. This is because ipv6 NS/NA are multicast . Even with ipv6 plumbed up , there are still some traffic hidden from snoop , like dhcpv6 solicit message, which are usually sent to multicast address ff02::1:2 . If one is using raw endpoint( datalink layer) on a VNIC , similar problem will happen. On a physical NIC , all multicast are received . On a VNIC , the multicast packets are discarded. Shouldn't all multicast packets be delivered to the VNIC while the VNIC is in promiscous mode , or a raw endpoint has been opened on the VNIC? This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
