Managing Network Virtualization and Network Resources in Oracle^® Solaris 11.4

Managing Network Resources by Using Datalink Properties

Network resources are regulated in datalinks through the following properties:

• max-bw – Maximum amount of bandwidth for a datalink.

• rx-rings and tx-rings – Number of receive rings (Rx rings) and transmit rings (Tx rings) of a NIC assigned to a datalink.

• pool – Name of the CPU pool containing sets of CPUs for a datalink.

• cpus – Name of the CPUs you assign to a datalink.

• lro – Status of the large receive offload (LRO) feature for a datalink.

To configure network resource properties of datalinks, use one of the following commands:

• $ dladm create-vnic -l link -p prop=value[,...] VNIC

  link

  Name of the link which can be either a physical link or a virtual link.

  prop

  Datalink property.

• $ dladm set-linkprop -p prop=value[,...] link

For reference, see the dladm(8) man page.