Thanks to Dean Ross-Smith for the answer, which is: I believe that on our boxes that have zones, we touched the interface files (touch /etc/bge0 or touch /etc/e1000g0) in the global zone which is enough for solaris to activate the interface and the nic configuration is then setup in the zone. hth Dean Ross-Smith -------------- sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org wrote on 07/08/2008 02:05:19 AM: > I have a X4150 solaris10u5 A local zone is configured with an exclusive > network interface, however there is a small problem. The local zone > cannot see the interface to plumb it until the global zone has plumbed and > unplumbed the interface. This prevents me starting the local zone at > boot. I believe this is a "feature" (I seem to remember having read about > this somewhere), has anyone a neat way round this or do I just tweak > /lib/svc/method/physical in the global zone to plumb and unplumb the > interface? -- John Landamore School of Mathematics & Computer Science University of Leicester University Road, LEICESTER, LE1 7RH J.Landamore@mcs.le.ac.uk Phone: +44 (0)116 2523410 Fax: +44 (0)116 2523604 _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Tue Jul 8 10:53:01 2008
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