[zones-discuss] Shared-ip routing and VNI interface

2007-12-03 Thread Paul Van Der Zwan
I'm having a problem figuring out why my ping replies never get sent. I have a Blade 1500 running Solaris 10 08/07 On it I have 2 active local zones, zone1 and zone2, their configs are: # zonecfg -z zone1 export create -b set zonepath=/zones/zone1 set autoboot=false set ip-type=shared add

Re: [zones-discuss] Shared-ip routing and VNI interface

2007-12-03 Thread Chris Zhu
Paul, Have you done zlogin -C zonename, it will initialize the zone environment including the network. Chris Paul Van Der Zwan wrote: I'm having a problem figuring out why my ping replies never get sent. I have a Blade 1500 running Solaris 10 08/07 On it I have 2 active local zones,

Re: [zones-discuss] Zones and NPIV

2007-12-03 Thread Aaron J. Dailey
I work with Jack, and wanted to follow up to the community about our latest thoughts: In answer to Mike Gerdts' query, we will allow an NPIV WWN to follow a non global zone from one box to another. One caveat is that the user will have to intervene to bind the virtual NPIV port to a new

Re: [zones-discuss] netmask warning, misconfiguration

2007-12-03 Thread James Carlson
Jordan Brown (Sun) writes: OTOH, I don't immediately understand how the example can work. It says that 128.32.*.* (except for the exclusions) gets a 24-bit netmask, but I don't see how that can be unambiguously determined. The example *seems* to want to explicitly specify a 28-bit netmask

Re: [zones-discuss] Shared-ip routing and VNI interface

2007-12-03 Thread James Carlson
Paul Van Der Zwan writes: I'm having a problem figuring out why my ping replies never get sent. There's no way for any of your configured zones to transmit, so they don't. Vni is really not much different from lo0. You cannot transmit packets on vni -- it's just a place to hang a local IP

Re: [zones-discuss] Solaris Containers Replication

2007-12-03 Thread Ihsan Zaghmouth
Sengor, This has been very well discussed @ http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa;jsessionid=12639754315F020770B3FDF6F98BDB3B?messageID=173929#173929 http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=173929#173929 On the other hand, some patches are sun4v only and are not

Re: [zones-discuss] netmask warning, misconfiguration

2007-12-03 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Dec 3, 2007 5:43 AM, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It doesn't always work very well, which is why I generally recommend against /etc/netmasks. It may have been an ok interface 20 years ago, but with CIDR, it's mostly a defect looking for a place to happen. If using only a local

Re: [zones-discuss] Shared-ip routing and VNI interface

2007-12-03 Thread Paul van der Zwan
On 3 Dec 2007, at 12:49, James Carlson wrote: Paul Van Der Zwan writes: I'm having a problem figuring out why my ping replies never get sent. There's no way for any of your configured zones to transmit, so they don't. Vni is really not much different from lo0. You cannot transmit packets

Re: [zones-discuss] Shared-ip routing and VNI interface

2007-12-03 Thread James Carlson
Paul van der Zwan writes: service address=10.1.1.1 default gateway=192.168.1.254 zone1 on host1 has 192.168.1.1 on bge0 and 10.1.1.1 on vni0 zone1 on host2 has 192.168.1.2 on bge0 and 10.1.1.1 on vni0 That looks like a variant on the original design target for vni, so I'd expect it to work.

Re: [zones-discuss] netmask warning, misconfiguration

2007-12-03 Thread Mike Gerdts
On Dec 3, 2007 8:45 AM, James Carlson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides the look-up ambiguity, there are also the chicken-and-egg problems that occur when users accidentally configure the system to use NIS or some other directory service for netmask resolution. Trying to configure an interface