Daniel wrote:
Hi,

I'm having trouble creating a guest domain that uses dhcp for
> its address. I'm wondering if maybe someone can point out something
> simple I may be missing.

So here's my setup. Everything is all on one machine. We're running
> a dhcp server within a zone. I've confirmed that the server is up,
> and that it is handing out addresses. I have another zone set up that
> uses it, and I can halt and boot that zone and it gets an ip address
> from the server. So I can do this with a zone but not with a guest domU yet.

Have you tried using a VNIC in the zone with the dhcp server
(i.e. exclusive IP stack)?  I would expect that this will work,
although I'm not sure what the problem would be.

e.g.

# dladm create-vnic -l e1000g0 dhcp-server
...
zonecfg:dhcp> set ip-type=exclusive
zonecfg:dhcp> add net
zonecfg:dhcp:net> set physical=dhcp-server
zonecfg:dhcp:net> end




I've tried two approaches to getting the domU to get an IP address. One
> was to run a virt-install in which I explicitly choose to have the
> machine networked using dhcp. I bridge it over the same network interface
that the zones are using. Unfortunately it always times out during the
> install and tells me it could not find a dhcp server.

The other thing I tried, and I think maybe this was misguided, it might
> only work for zones, but I installed a guest image without networking
> and then edited the sysidcfg file to enable dhcp, and then rebooted
> the guest. That didn't seem to work either.

I hope you can understand my rambling, but is there anything that comes
> to mind that I may be missing? Thanks for any help.

can you do a dladm show-link and then snoop on the vnic used for
the guest?



Thanks,

MRJ


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