[OpenIndiana-discuss] Networking with Zones an Crossbow on the same Network

[Darko Hojnik]

Hi

I'm evaluating OpenIndiana with Crossbow and Zones. So I want to setup one  
Host with five Zones. At first in my environment at home, everything  
should be available in the same network 192.168.2.0. The same with an  
another network in a datacenter later.

The host has got a statically configured Interface with the IP  
192.168.2.201. Gateway and DNS Server are 192.168.2.1.

After dladm create-vnic -l e1000g0 vnic0 I have no working network  
anymore. Only if I chose vnic0 then as the network interface I could  
assign to my Network again.


darko at masterzone:~# ifconfig -a

lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232  
index 1
         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
vnic0: flags=1100843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,ROUTER,IPv4> mtu 1500  
index 2
         inet 192.168.2.201 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
         ether 2:8:20:b5:44:d6
lo0: flags=2002000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,VIRTUAL> mtu 8252  
index 1
         inet6 ::1/128


darko at masterzone:~# dladm show-link
e1000g0     phys      1500   up       --         --
vnic0       vnic      1500   up       --         e1000g0
vnic1       vnic      1500   up       --         e1000g0
vnic2       vnic      1500   up       --         e1000g0
vnic3       vnic      1500   up       --         e1000g0
vnic4       vnic      1500   up       --         e1000g0
vnic5       vnic      1500   up       --         e1000g0


Later I have created my first Zone


zonecfg -z mailserver
create
set zonepath=/rpool/zones/mailserver
set ip-type=exclusive
add net
set physical=vnic1
end
exit

zoneadm -z mailserver install

zoneadm -z mailserver boot

After I have finished the setup of the Zone I could access via Network the  
Host with 192.168.2.201. But not the rest of my network. And from the  
network I could only access the Host. IPv4 forwarding is activated  
(routeadm -u -e ipv4-forwarding)

So my questions are what I did wrong? Or what is going wrong? Do I need a  
bridge for this setup?

kind regards,
Darko