Jim Klimov wrote: > 2012-10-01 15:04, James Carlson wrote: >> Given that etherstubs aren't real Ethernet interfaces and thus cannot be >> bridged, that plan may be hard to achieve. It's also unclear to me what >> doing that would buy, except perhaps lower performance. > > As for the idea with bridging - I understand that an > etherstub is not an interface, but rather a switch or > hub. I wondered if this virtual hub can get connected > to the physical LAN (bridged at the ethernet layer) > using a physical NIC attached to both.
Not that I know of. Etherstubs don't quite play in the same area as real NICs. >> It should be much easier to create VNICs on top of a chosen Ethernet >> interface. > > Basically, my main concern was that in one boot-up case > the OS has to create all those virtual and aliased NICs > over "rge0" and in another case over "e1000g0". I want > to minimize or eliminate manual changes in configs when > I boot the OI OS image on hardware or in the VM, thus > I wanted both "rge0" and "e1000g0" (whichever is present) > to map to an "eth0" and set up all the rest above this. > If this works, it would reach my goal. I see. I guess I'd be tempted to script the VNIC creation part. -- James Carlson 42.703N 71.076W <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
