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Managing Network Virtualization and Network Resources in Oracle® Solaris 11.3

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Updated: April 2018
 
 

Managing VNICs

This section describes tasks that you can perform on VNICs after performing basic configuration. For information about how to perform basic configuration of VNICs, see How to Configure VNICs and Etherstubs.

You can modify the VLAN ID, the MAC address, and the underlying datalink of a VNIC. Modifying the underlying datalink means moving a VNIC to another datalink. You can either globally modify the attribute of all the VNICs on a datalink or selectively modify the attribute of only specified VNICs.

This section covers the following topics: