Martin Man writes: > > VNIC? I think we were discussing the use of DHCP with regular > > shared-stack zones and ordinary logical interfaces. > > I'm lost in Sun's "always-have-at-least-three-names-for-the-same-thing" > madness, fortunately it didn't confuse you :-))
;-} > I understand physical interface bge0 and I know logical interface > bge0:1. forget the rest please..., somehow I was thinking about VNIC > being the Virtual NIC, e.g., logical interface... ???? OK; then it sounds like we're talking about the same thing. (VNICs are a Crossbow concept. They're layer 2 devices, rather than being layer 3 entities like the much older IP logical interfaces. If you like, you can think of IP logical interfaces as being "address aliases" found on other operating systems. They're just represented as distinct IP objects with their own flags on Solaris.) > > I think the proposal would be to make the DHCP-learned information > > available within the non-global zone, not to go modify the zone's > > files from the global zone. > > > > One way to do this would be to make the /etc/dhcp/$IF.dhc file visible > > in the zone, and write the raw DHCPACK there. There are probably > > better ways of doing this, such as making dhcpagent's internal control > > socket (used by dhcpinfo) available in the zone. > > as long as it will work with BrandZ I basically don't care... Got it; that's an important consideration. Getting the DHCP data into a form where Linux can use it inside the zone might be a challenge, but it's worth some thought. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
