Bridging only supports physical NICs, not VNICs :-( Adding multiple VNICs to a physical NIC addresses this, but you are back to your original problem of changing physical NICs.
I see scripting in your future... NWAM might be used to trigger your scripts. Mike On Sat, 2012-10-20 at 19:28 +0400, Jim Klimov wrote: > 2012-10-20 19:05, Michael Stapleton wrote: > > Maybe you could have your zones and the global zone on an etherstub > > through VNICs, > > Then route from the global zones real NIC to the VNIC connected to the > > etherstub. Can you use NAT? IP addresses might be the next challenge. > > Solaris11 also support DHCP with zones, Any one know if that might get > > ported to OI? > > Yeah, DHCP with zones works, as well as exclusive networking > with routers and firewalls in zones. > > The challenge in this setup would be to bring the routing to > life. There are setups where the GZ has no public IP address > and a local zone has a dedicated public interface and works > as a router/firewall/NAT for the whole system (GZ and other > LZs) kind of like what you outlined. I wonder if that can > work with the multiple interfaces, one of which is present > at a time ("raw", ipmp or aggr to start with). If my other > options don't pan out, I research this more - thanks for > the idea ;) > > I did however want to bind at least my bridged VMs to VNICs > on the physical public interface, so they can be addressed > from the external net with that net's addresses. I am not > sure this would work well over NAT (i.e. serving CIFS from > several VMs on one public IP address is tricky), and I did > start my questions (unanswered) discussing the possibility > of just attaching an etherstub to external net like a switch, > bridging over the available one of the physical interfaces. > > //Jim > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss