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How to plumb new IP in the zone on fly

at 13:37 Lingeswaran R Solaris Networking Zones

As we all know that plumbing a new interface and assigning a IP address in Solaris 10 global zone. Have
you ever added the new IP address in local zone without rebooting it ? Will it work by adding the IP
information in zone's configuration using zonecfg ? No. If you add a any new configuration, in zonecfg
requires a reboot. But oracle offers other ways to plumb the IP in to local zone on the fly.

Here is step by step guide to add a new IP address in local zone.But prior to do that ,we should create
virtual NIC instance in global.

Setup:
Here i am having aggregation aggr1312012 and aggr1312012:1 used by some other instance.
So i need to create aggr1312012:2 for new IP address on the global zone.
Here I am just verifying how many virtual aggregations already exists for aggr1312012.

[root@ global ~]# ifconfig -a |grep -i aggr1312012

aggr1312012: flags=201000842 mtu 1500 index 10
aggr1312012:1: flags=201000843 mtu 1500 index 10

So now we are good to plumb the instance 2 from aggregation aggr1312012.

The new virtual insterface will aggr1312012:2 .

[root@global ~]# ifconfig aggr1312012:2 plumb

Checking the newly created virtual instance

[root@global ~]# ifconfig -a |grep -i aggr1312012

aggr1312012: flags=201000842 mtu 1500 index 10
aggr1312012:1: flags=201000843 mtu 1500 index 10
aggr1312012:2: flags=201000842 mtu 1500 index 10

Login in to local zone and verify the existing IP.

[root@global ~]# zlogin localzone

# ifconfig -a
lo0:6: flags=2001000849 mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
aggr1312012:1: flags=201000843 mtu 1500 index 10
inet 101.10.117.140 netmask ffffffc0 broadcast 101.10.117.191
# exit
[Connection to zone 'localzone' pts/19 closed]

Plumbing the new IP on the fly to local zone

[root@global ~]# ifconfig aggr1312012:2 101.10.117.135 netmask 255.255.255.192 z

one localzone
[root@global ~]# ifconfig aggr1312012:2 up

[root@global ~]# zlogin localzone

[Connected to zone 'localzone' pts/19]
Last login: Thu Jan 12 23:11:57 on pts/19
# ifconfig -a
lo0:5: flags=2001000849 mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
aggr1312012:2: flags=201000843 mtu 1500 index 10
inet 101.10.117.135 netmask ffffffc0 broadcast 101.10.117.191
aggr1312012:1: flags=201000843 mtu 1500 index 10
inet 101.10.117.140 netmask ffffffc0 broadcast 101.10.117.191

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# exit
[Connection to zone 'localzone' pts/19 closed]
[root@global ~]#

Using zonecfg you can add the new IP information to this zone. So that newly configured IP will be
persist across the reboot.

zonecfg -z Arena-zone
zonecfg:Arena-zone> add net
zonecfg:Arena-zone>set address=101.10.117.135
zonecfg:Arena-zone>set physical=aggr1312012
zonecfg:Arena-zone>end

The same way you can un-plumb the IP address from the local zone and you can remove the
address permanently by removing the entries from zonecfg.

That's all here. Thank you for reading this article. Please leave a comment if you have any doubt.I will get
back to you.

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