On 01/25/10 02:29 AM, Tina wrote:
Hi all,
Can Zone work as a DHCP client? In my testing enviorment, all ip must be
assigned from a DHCP server, I have setup a solaris 10 (x86 version) and config
it as a DHCP client, now I tried to create a ZONE on it. How can I config the
ZONE as a DHCP client in this enviroment? BTW, only one NIC in the machine. Any
feedback will be very appreciated,
If you configure the zone to be an exclusive-IP zone then it can be a
DHCP client.
In Solaris 10 that requires having a separate datalink name for the zone
(either a separate NIC, or a separate VLAN).
In Nevada/OpenSolaris there is more flexibility since you can create a
VNIC and give that VNIC to the zone.
You can potentially use the support for logical interfaces in dhcpagent
(see man page) to configure e.g., bge0:1 using DHCP, and use a shared-IP
zone. Then you would manually have to do
ifconfig bge0 zone zoneA
In that case you wouldn't list any IP address in zonecfg. Note that I
haven't tried this approach so I don't know if there are any gotchas.
Erik
_______________________________________________
zones-discuss mailing list
zones-discuss@opensolaris.org