Matty, It seems you are seeing the same issue previously discussed here:
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=334039 The emulated e1000g running in VMware is not implementing all the semantics expected from e1000g. In particular Crossbow adds the MAC addresses for the VNICs to e1000g, but these addresses are ignored by the emulated e1000g, and packets for these MAC addresses don't make it to the guest domain. If you can get VMware to put the underlying NIC in promiscuous mode and send packets for these MAC addresses to the domain, then Crossbow will dispatch them to the VNICs. Nicolas. On Apr 1, 2009, at 7:51 AM, Matty wrote: > Howdy, > > I have been testing out Crossbow inside VMWare server 2.X, and have > encountered a bizarre issue. When I try to ping the IP address > assigned to a VNIC, the ICMP echo requests don't appear to reach the > host. But as soon as I snoop the interface the vnics were created on, > everything appears to work seamlessly. Has anyone seen this behavior > before? My configuration is attached. > > Thanks, > - Ryan > > bash-3.2# uname -a > SunOS nevada 5.11 snv_110 i86pc i386 i86pc > > bash-3.2# dladm show-vnic > LINK OVER SPEED MACADDRESS > MACADDRTYPE VID > vnic1 switch0 0 2:8:20:7a:b8:c1 > random 0 > vnic2 switch0 0 2:8:20:d9:72:61 > random 0 > vnic3 e1000g0 1000 2:8:20:68:ae:1f > random 0 > > bash-3.2# ifconfig -a > lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu > 8232 index 1 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 > e1000g0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 > index 2 > inet 192.168.1.32 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > ether 0:c:29:87:7a:c6 > vnic3: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 > index 3 > inet 192.168.1.29 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > ether 2:8:20:68:ae:1f > lo0: flags=2002000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,VIRTUAL> mtu > 8252 index 1 > inet6 ::1/128 > _______________________________________________ > crossbow-discuss mailing list > crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/crossbow-discuss -- Nicolas Droux - Solaris Kernel Networking - Sun Microsystems, Inc. droux at sun.com - http://blogs.sun.com/droux
