Patches for Using IP Instances with ce NICs are Available
The [Solaris 10] patches to be able to use IP Instances with the Cassini ethernet interface, known as ce, are available on sunsolve.sun.com for Solaris 10 users with a maintenance contract or subscription. (This is for Solaris 10 8/07, or a prior update patched to that level. These patches are included in Solaris 10 5/08, and also in patch clusters or bundles delivered at or around the same time, and since then.)
The SPARC patches are:
- 137042-01 SunOS 5.10: zoneadmd patch
- 118777-12 SunOS 5.10: Sun GigaSwift Ethernet 1.0 driver patch
The x86 patches are:
- 137043-01 SunOS 5.10_x86: zoneadmd patch
- 118778-11 SunOS 5.10_x86: Sun GigaSwift Ethernet 1.0 driver patch
I have not been able to try out the released patches myself, yet.
Steffen
I installed 118777-14 but dladm still doesn't work:
dladm create-aggr -d ce0 -d ce4 1
dladm: create operation failed: No such file or directory (invalid interface name)
Posted by Charles on October 08, 2009 at 04:03 PM EDT #
This allow you to use IP Instances with the 'ce' interface, even though the driver is not GLDv3. The dladm command requires GLDv3 compatible devices. If you want to aggregate 'ce' you need Sun Trunking 1.3 or 1.3.1.
Posted by 192.18.128.5 on October 08, 2009 at 05:48 PM EDT #
I mistakenly thought the support for instances was the crucial missing piece to make the aggregation work w/ ce devices and dladm. Thought there was some work to make that happen in future versions of Solaris and that this was a backport.
Posted by Charles on October 09, 2009 at 09:29 AM EDT #