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Creating a Virtual NIC
To create a virtual NIC (vNIC), use the dladm utility with the create-vnic option. For example:
$ dladm create-vnic -l
net0
vnic1
Once a vNIC is created, it can be assigned to a zone using the “zonecfg” utility. For example:
$ zonecfg -z zone1
zonecfg:zone1: No such zone configured
zonecfg:zone1> create
zonecfg:zone1> set zonepath=/export/zone1
zonecfg:zone1> create
zonecfg:zone1> add net
zonecfg:zone1> set physical=vnic1
zonecfg:zone1> set address=192.168.1.100
zonecfg:zone1> verify
zonecfg:zone1> commit
Up to 63 VLANs can be used with each universal multichannel (UMC) virtual channel.
Note: You cannot run Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP) when UMC is enabled.
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