Nicolas Droux writes: > David, > > On Nov 23, 2008, at 8:44 AM, David Sewell wrote: > > > I am trying to use crossbow to simulate a low latency multicast > > messaging test environment on a single box. > > > > I've BFU'ed crossbow from nightly-nd-bins-20081031.i386.tar.bz2 onto > > a clean Opensolaris 2008.5 build running in VirtualBox. > > > > All seems to work well except any etherstubs created and associated > > vnics disappear after a reboot. After reboot, they do not appear in > > the list with "dladm show-link", but if I try and recreate the > > etherstubs I get the error "dladm: etherstub creation failed: object > > already exists". > > NWAM is probably enabled. NWAM doesn't bring up pseudo data-links like > aggr, VNICs, and etherstubs at boot. You can try disabling NWAM, see > nwamd(1M), to confirm that this is the problem.
Is there a CR for this? I wouldn't expect NWAM to run on those interfaces -- it wouldn't plumb IP on them or acquire addresses -- but I'm surprised that the user's configured L2 devices would just disappear on reboot and be put into an unusable state. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
