crossbow discuss - May 2009 - dhcp server on an exclusive IP zone

Hi,

I have been trying to run a dhcp server on an exclusive IP zone. The 
exclusive IP zone I created is running over a vnic.
bash-3.2# dladm show-vnic dhcp1
LINK         OVER         SPEED  MACADDRESS           
MACADDRTYPE         VID
dhcp1        bge0         100    2:8:20:23:68:1f      random              0


In the zone that is running the dhcp-server:
bash-3.2# ifconfig dhcp1
dhcp1: 
flags=201000863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,CoS> mtu 
1500 index 2
    inet 172.0.156.1 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 172.0.156.255
    ether 2:8:20:23:68:1f


In order to get the dhcp-server running I did make changes as mentioned 
in this thread:
http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5236367

Although the dhcp-server is running and the server does see DHCPDISCOVER 
broadcast packet sent by the  dhcp client. It is not assigning a IP 
address. Is it not possible to run a dhcp-server over a VNIC?

Thanks,

Sagun

On May 4, 2009, at 2:59 PM, sagun shakya wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to run a dhcp server on an exclusive IP zone. The  
> exclusive IP zone I created is running over a vnic.
> bash-3.2# dladm show-vnic dhcp1
> LINK         OVER         SPEED  MACADDRESS            
> MACADDRTYPE         VID
> dhcp1        bge0         100    2:8:20:23:68:1f       
> random              0
>
>
> In the zone that is running the dhcp-server:
> bash-3.2# ifconfig dhcp1
> dhcp1:  
> flags=201000863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,CoS>  
> mtu 1500 index 2
>   inet 172.0.156.1 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 172.0.156.255
>   ether 2:8:20:23:68:1f
>
>
> In order to get the dhcp-server running I did make changes as  
> mentioned in this thread:
> http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5236367
>
> Although the dhcp-server is running and the server does see  
> DHCPDISCOVER broadcast packet sent by the  dhcp client. It is not  
> assigning a IP address. Is it not possible to run a dhcp-server over  
> a VNIC?
I don''t see why not. If the DHCP server is getting the requests but  
not assigning an IP, this could be pointing some issue with the DHCP  
server. I''d suggest looking into that first.

Nicolas.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sagun
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