I am updating the FAQ, and the old limit of 900 ''public'' VNICs is no longer in place. I am at 7100 and counting on a single bge interface. I take it there is no more limit? Interestingly, I hit an error around 5500, where the random MAC address was not unique. I guess there is no collision detection and retry. dladm: vnic creation over bge3 failed: MAC address is already in use I am using ''dladm create-vnic -l bge3 -m auto $L'', where $L is vnicXYZ and XYZ is an increasing integer. In the meantime, I am over 10500 VNICs, and have had two MAC address collisions. Steffen
Steffen, It seems you are hitting 6853771 (VNIC creation can unexpectedly fail in the case of a random MAC address collision). See the CR for details, or this thread: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=106368&tstart=1 Nicolas. Steffen Weiberle wrote:> I am updating the FAQ, and the old limit of 900 ''public'' VNICs is no > longer in place. I am at 7100 and counting on a single bge interface. I > take it there is no more limit? > > Interestingly, I hit an error around 5500, where the random MAC address > was not unique. I guess there is no collision detection and retry. > > dladm: vnic creation over bge3 failed: MAC address is already in use > > I am using ''dladm create-vnic -l bge3 -m auto $L'', where $L is vnicXYZ > and XYZ is an increasing integer. > > In the meantime, I am over 10500 VNICs, and have had two MAC address > collisions. > > Steffen > _______________________________________________ > crossbow-discuss mailing list > crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/crossbow-discuss
On 08/13/09 18:17, Nicolas Droux wrote:> Steffen, > > It seems you are hitting 6853771 (VNIC creation can unexpectedly fail in > the case of a random MAC address collision). See the CR for details, or > this thread: > > http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=106368&tstart=1 > > Nicolas.Thank Nicolas. And my system (v210 running 116) ''locked up'' (dladm would not return) with 10841 VNICs. A reboot never gets beyond "Hardware watchdog enabled" on a non-verbose boot. Steffen> > > Steffen Weiberle wrote: >> I am updating the FAQ, and the old limit of 900 ''public'' VNICs is no >> longer in place. I am at 7100 and counting on a single bge interface. >> I take it there is no more limit? >> >> Interestingly, I hit an error around 5500, where the random MAC >> address was not unique. I guess there is no collision detection and >> retry. >> >> dladm: vnic creation over bge3 failed: MAC address is already in use >> >> I am using ''dladm create-vnic -l bge3 -m auto $L'', where $L is vnicXYZ >> and XYZ is an increasing integer. >> >> In the meantime, I am over 10500 VNICs, and have had two MAC address >> collisions. >> >> Steffen >> _______________________________________________ >> crossbow-discuss mailing list >> crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/crossbow-discuss
Steffen Weiberle wrote:> On 08/13/09 18:17, Nicolas Droux wrote: >> Steffen, >> >> It seems you are hitting 6853771 (VNIC creation can unexpectedly fail >> in the case of a random MAC address collision). See the CR for >> details, or this thread: >> >> http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=106368&tstart=1 >> >> Nicolas. > > Thank Nicolas. > > And my system (v210 running 116) ''locked up'' (dladm would not return) > with 10841 VNICs. > > A reboot never gets beyond "Hardware watchdog enabled" on a non-verbose > boot.If you give me access to your system''s console I can take a look. Nicolas.> > Steffen > >> >> >> Steffen Weiberle wrote: >>> I am updating the FAQ, and the old limit of 900 ''public'' VNICs is no >>> longer in place. I am at 7100 and counting on a single bge interface. >>> I take it there is no more limit? >>> >>> Interestingly, I hit an error around 5500, where the random MAC >>> address was not unique. I guess there is no collision detection and >>> retry. >>> >>> dladm: vnic creation over bge3 failed: MAC address is already in use >>> >>> I am using ''dladm create-vnic -l bge3 -m auto $L'', where $L is >>> vnicXYZ and XYZ is an increasing integer. >>> >>> In the meantime, I am over 10500 VNICs, and have had two MAC address >>> collisions. >>> >>> Steffen >>> _______________________________________________ >>> crossbow-discuss mailing list >>> crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/crossbow-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > crossbow-discuss mailing list > crossbow-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/crossbow-discuss