Bug #13695
closedCan't create VNICs over vioif after 13637
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Description
Up until #13637 was integrated, vioif interfaces ignored requests to enable promiscuous mode, but returned success.
This allowed VNICs to be created on top of vioif interfaces and, with some additional configuration, they could be used.
The usual way that I used this was to create a VNIC in the global zone, and assign some secondary mac addresses to it via the secondary-macs
property.
That VNIC is then allocated to a bhyve VM, and the guest sees a vioif
interface.
The guest creates one or more VNICs over that vioif, explicitly setting the MAC addresses to match those assigned to the GZ VNIC's secondary-macs
.
Here is an example configuration that worked prior to #13637
Global zone:
reaper# dladm show-vnic omniosr0 LINK OVER SPEED MACADDRESS MACADDRTYPE VID ZONE omniosr0 switch10 0 2:8:20:10:1c:b6 random 0 bloody reaper# dladm show-linkprop -p secondary-macs omniosr0 LINK PROPERTY PERM VALUE DEFAULT POSSIBLE omniosr0 secondary-macs rw a:0:0:0:0:1 -- --
In the bhyve guest that is assigned omniosr0
:
bloody% dladm LINK CLASS MTU STATE BRIDGE OVER vioif0 phys 1400 up -- -- switch_10 etherstub 9000 up -- -- bloody% pfexec zadm boot lx bloody% dladm LINK CLASS MTU STATE BRIDGE OVER vioif0 phys 1400 up -- -- switch_10 etherstub 9000 up -- -- lx0 vnic 1400 up -- vioif0 bloody% dladm show-vnic LINK OVER SPEED MACADDRESS MACADDRTYPE VID ZONE lx0 vioif0 1000 a:0:0:0:0:9 fixed 0 lx bloody% pfexec zlogin lx [Connected to zone 'lx' pts/2] # ping 1.1.1.1 PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 1.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=6.34 ms ^C
Now that vioif properly supports promiscuous mode, but while the bhyve viona driver does not, it would be helpful if the previous behaviour could be restored to allow this type of configuration to continue working.
Related issues
Updated by Andy Fiddaman about 1 year ago
I tested this change by booting the OmniOS VM shown in the issue description on a patched system. I was again able to boot a variety of zones using VNICs over the vioif interface, and pass traffic to and from the Internet from inside the zone.
Updated by Electric Monk about 1 year ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100
git commit 8054a0e4c809d98ffb44f17b9a8b932ca2c24b2c
commit 8054a0e4c809d98ffb44f17b9a8b932ca2c24b2c Author: Jason King <jason.brian.king@gmail.com> Date: 2021-04-05T23:47:08.000Z 13695 Can't create VNICs over vioif after 13637 Reviewed by: Andy Fiddaman <andy@omnios.org> Reviewed by: Andrew Stormont <andyjstormont@gmail.com> Approved by: Robert Mustacchi <rm@fingolfin.org>
Updated by Andy Fiddaman about 1 month ago
- Related to Feature #14716: viona should support a control queue and promiscuous mode. added