[OpenIndiana-discuss] Exclusive IP zones under VMware

[Andrew Gabriel]

Sounds like similar problem as under Virtualbox.
The emulated e1000g claims to support 15 mac addresses, but actually 
only the first mac address works, so frames addressed to the other mac 
addresses are not passed up.
If the emulated e1000g correctly claimed to support only 1 mac address, 
then the driver would put it into promiscuous mode when it needs more 
than one mac address.
I know yours looks like it is in promiscuous mode, but try seeing if it 
works whilst you snoop the interface (in promiscuous mode), and it would 
be interesting to know if snoop can see the frames send to the second 
mac address.

The other possibility is that the driver has done the right thing 
putting the emulated e1000g into promiscuous mode, but some VMware 
configuration may not be allowing it to really work this way.


On 21/04/2014 16:20, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
>
> Now that I've copied the zone into the new master zone running under VMware,
> I've run into a problem with IP networking.  I've set up the vnic, assigned
> the IP, and can ping/access the IP from the global zone. However I can't
> access that IP from the LAN. Oddly, the arp table in the external machine
> I'm pining from DOES have an entry with the correct MAC address.
>
> The only solution I found in my searches was people who needed to put the
> interface on the global zone into permiscuous mode, however my is already in
> PROMSIC mode:
>
>
> Is there anything different that needs to be done with exclusive IP
> networking in a VMware guest ?
>
>
>
> chris at Zeb:~$ dladm show-link
> LINK        CLASS     MTU    STATE    BRIDGE     OVER
> e1000g0     phys      1500   up       --         --
> vnic2       vnic      1500   up       --         e1000g0
> vnic1       vnic      1500   up       --         e1000g0
>
> chris at Zeb:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
> lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
>          inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
> e1000g0: flags=1000943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
>          inet 216.187.52.36 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 216.187.52.255
> lo0: flags=2002000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,VIRTUAL> mtu 8252 index 1
>          inet6 ::1/128