On 08/16/2014 09:39 AM, G B via smartos-discuss wrote:
> I'm stumped for the moment, so maybe somebody can alleviate my block.
> 
> Currently I have a firewall with  dmz and internal interfaces each going to a 
> physical switch.  What I'd like to do is removed the dmz physical switch and 
> have my dmz servers go through a virtual switch, but that is what has me 
> stumped.
> 
> I created an etherstub:  # dladm create-etherstub vswitch0
> 
> Then I created a vnic:  # dladm create-vnic -l vswitch0 vnic0
> 
> Next I intended to plug the CAT6 cable into vnic0, then I would create 
> another vnic and put that in a zone.  But:
> 
> 1)  I'm not sure if that is correct
> 2)  I'm unsure what the syntax is for the json file for the vnic
> 
> Another thing is presently the physical nic on the server goes to the 
> physical dmz switch.  Not sure what I'd change to eliminate the dmz physical 
> switch for the dmz server's physical nic.

So, I think it's worth clarifying a few things. While an etherstub is a
virtual switch, it's a virtual switch that only exists on the host, a
single vnic can only be created over a single device and therefore
there's no notion of plugging in a physical cable to a virtual nic. It's
also the case that every physical device has an implicit virtual switch.

Would it be possible to draw a small network diagram of how you want
everything to look? It's not really that clear from the mail how you
want this to look.

Robert


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