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dladm(1M)

Name

dladm - administer data links

Synopsis

dladm
dladm show-link [-PZ] [[
-p] -o field[,...]] [
-z zone[,...]] [link]
dladm rename-link [-R root-dir
] link new-link
dladm delete-phys phys-link
dladm show-phys [-PZ] [-Lm] [[
-p] -o field[,...]] [
-H]
     [-z zone[,...]] [-D [
dcb-feature]] [-lr]] [phys-link]
dladm create-aggr [-t] [
-R root-dir] [-m 
mode] [-P policy] [
-L lacpmode] 
     [-T time] [-u 
address] -l ether-link1 [
-l ether-link2...] aggr-link
dladm modify-aggr [-t] [-R 
root-dir] [-m mode] [
-P policy] [-L 
lacpmode] 
     [-T time] [-u 
address] aggr-link
dladm delete-aggr [-t] [-R 
root-dir] aggr-link
dladm add-aggr [-t] [-R 
root-dir] -l ether-link1 [
-l ether-link2...] 
     aggr-link
dladm remove-aggr [-t] [-R 
root-dir] -l ether-link1 [
-l ether-link2...]
     aggr-link
dladm show-aggr [-PLxZS] [-s [-i interval]] [[-p] -o field[,...]]
 	  [-z zone[,...]] [aggr-link]
dladm create-bridge [-P 
protect] [-R root-dir] [
-p priority]
     [-m max-age] [-h 
hello-time] [-d forward-delay] [
-f force-protocol]
     [-l link...] bridge-name

dladm modify-bridge [-P protect
] [-R root-dir] [
-p priority]
     [-m max-age] [-h 
hello-time] [-d forward-delay] [
-f force-protocol]
     bridge-name
dladm delete-bridge [-R root-dir
] bridge-name
dladm add-bridge [-R root-dir] 
-l link [-l 
link...]bridge-name
dladm remove-bridge [-R root-dir
] -l link [-l
 link...] bridge-name
dladm show-bridge [-flt] [-s [
-i interval]] [[-p] 
-o field,...]
     [bridge-name]
dladm create-vlan [-ft] [-R root-dir] -l ether-link -v
          vid[,pvlan-svid[,pvlan-type]] [vlan-link]
dladm modify-vlan [-t] [-R root-dir] [-l ether-link] [-v
          vid[,pvlan-svid[,pvlan-type]] [-f]]
 	  {vlan-link,[vlan-link,...] | -L ether-link}
dladm delete-vlan [-t] [-R 
root-dir] vlan-link
dladm show-vlan [-PZ] [[-p] 
-o field[,...]] [-z 
zone[,...]] [vlan-link]
dladm scan-wifi [[-p] -o
 field[,...]] [wifi-link]
dladm connect-wifi [-e essid] [
-i bssid] [-k 
key,...]
     [-s none | wep | wpa ] [-a open | shared] [
-b bss | ibss] [-c]
     [-m a | b | g | n ] [-T time
] [wifi-link]
dladm disconnect-wifi [-a] [wifi-link
]
dladm show-wifi [-Z] [[-p] 
-o field[,...]] [-z 
zone[,...]] [wifi-link]
dladm show-ether [-xZ] [[
-p] -o field[,...]] [
-z zone[,...]]
     [-P protocol] [ether-link
]
dladm set-linkprop [-t] [
-R root-dir] -p 
prop=value[,...] link
dladm reset-linkprop [-t] [-R 
root-dir] [-p prop[,...]] 
link
dladm show-linkprop [-HPZ] [[-c] 
-o field[,...]] [-p 
prop[,...]]
     [-z zone[,...]] [
link]

dladm create-secobj [-t] [
-R root-dir] [-f 
file] -c class 
secobj
dladm delete-secobj [-t] [-R 
root-dir] secobj[,...]
dladm show-secobj [-P] [[-p] 
-o field[,...]] [secobj,...]
dladm create-vnic [-t] [-f] -l link [-R root-dir] [-m value | auto |
          {factory [-n slot-identifier]} | {vrrp -A {inet | inet6} -V vrid}
          | {random [-r prefix]}] [-v vlan-id] 
          [-P pkey] [-p prop=value[,...]] vnic-link
dladm create-vnic -t -c <evsname>[/<vportname>] [-T <tenant>] <vnic-link>
dladm modify-vnic [-t] [-R 
root-dir] [-l link]  [
-m value | auto | 
     {factory [-n slot-identifier]} | {vrrp 
-A {inet | inet6} -V vrid}
     | {random [-r prefix]}] [
-v vlan-id[,pvlan-svid[,pvlan-type]]]
     {vnic-link,[vnic-link,...] | 
-L link}
dladm delete-vnic [-t] [-R 
root-dir] vnic-link
dladm show-vnic [-P | {-z zone[,..]}] [[-p] -o field[,..]] [-l link] 
[vnic-link]
dladm show-vnic [-Zmv] [-l link] [vnic-link]
dladm create-etherstub [-t] [
-R root-dir] etherstub
dladm delete-etherstub [-t] [-R 
root-dir] etherstub
dladm show-etherstub [-Z] [-z 
zone[,...]] [etherstub]
dladm create-iptun [-t] [
-R root-dir] -T 
type [-a {local|remote}=addr,...]
     iptun-link
dladm modify-iptun [-t] [-R 
root-dir] -a {local|remote}=addr,...
     iptun-link
dladm delete-iptun [-t] [-R 
root-dir] iptun-link
dladm show-iptun [-PZ] [[-p] 
-o field[,...]] [-z 
zone[,...]] [iptun-link]
dladm create-part [-t] [
-f] -l ib-link [
-R root-dir] -P 
pkey
     [-p prop=value[,...]] 
part-link
dladm delete-part [-t] [-R 
root-dir] part-link
dladm show-part [-pP] [-o 
field[,...]] [-l ib-link]  [
part-link]
dladm show-ib [-pP] [-o 
field[,...]] [ib-link]
dladm create-eoib [-t] [
-R root-dir] -l 
ib-link -g gw-system-name
     -c gw-eth-port eoib-link

dladm delete-eoib [-t] [-R 
root-dir] eoib-link
dladm show-eoib [-PZ] [-g 
gw-system-name] [-l ib-link] [[
-p]
     -o field[,...]] [-z 
zone [,...]] [eoib-link]
dladm show-ib [-pP] [-o 
field[,...]] [ib-link]
dladm create-vxlan [-t] [
-R root-dir] -p 
vni=<vxlan id>,addr=<ip_address>[,prop=value
[,...]]
          vxlan-link
dladm create-vxlan [-t] [
-R root-dir] -p 
vni=<vxlan id>,interface=<interface_name>[,prop=value
[,...]]
          vxlan-link
dladm show-vxlan [-pP] [-o 
field[,...]] [vxlan-link]
dladm delete-vxlan [-t] [-R 
root-dir] vxlan-link
dladm create-cap  [-t] [-R root-dir] cap-link 
dladm show-cap [-pP] [-o  field[,...]] [cap-link] 
dladm delete-cap  [-t] [-R root-dir] cap-link
dladm help [subcommand-name]

Description

The dladm command is used to administer data-links. A data-link is represented in the system as a STREAMS DLPI (v2) interface which can be plumbed under protocol stacks such as TCP/IP. Each data-link relies on either a single network device or an aggregation of devices to send packets to or receive packets from a network.

All link configuration is part of a Network Configuration Profile (NCP). Any number of NCPs may be defined on a system, but there will always be one active NCP. Changes made using the dladm command will be applied to the currently active NCP.

NCPs may be 'fixed' or 'reactive'. There is one fixed NCP, called DefaultFixed. This NCP will have all of its configuration applied immediately upon activation, and the system will not make any changes, regardless of the success or failure of any part of the configuration. There may be any number of reactive NCPs; these NCPs will be applied based on additional policy rules that make up the profile, and the system configuration may be changed automatically in response to changes in the network conditions, based on the NCP's policy rules. The policy rules for a reactive NCP may be created using the netcfg(1M) command.

Each dladm subcommand operates on one of the following objects:

link

A datalink, identified by a name. The name can be at most 30 characters, and must start with an alphabetic character and end with a number between 0 and 4294967294 (inclusive). A number with leading zeroes is not permitted. The rest of the name can use any combination of alphanumeric characters, along with '.' and '_'. In addition, datalink names may also contain the special delimiter characters '/' and '-', as described below.

When viewed from the global zone, datalinks inside a zone will have a prefix (identifying the zone), followed by a '/' and the traditional datalink name. Thus, datalink "net0" inside zone "myzone" will appear as "myzone/net0" when viewed from the global zone. This ensures that the datalink names are always unique.

Datalinks created externally to dladm will contain a prefix (identifying the creator) followed by a '-' and a traditional datalink name (for example, ldoms-vsw1.port2). This ensures that externally-created datalinks will not have naming conflicts. Accordingly, dladm cannot be used to create datalinks that contain '-'.

Some subcommands operate only on certain types or classes of datalinks. For those cases, the following object names are used:

aggr-link

An aggregation datalink (or a key; see NOTES).

ether-link

A physical Ethernet datalink.

eoib-link

An Ethernet-over-InfiniBand (EoIB) datalink.

iptun-link

An IP tunnel link.

part-link

An InfiniBand (IB) partition data link.

phys-link

A physical datalink.

vlan-link

A VLAN datalink.

vnic-link

A virtual network interface created on a link or an etherstub . It is a pseudo device that can be treated as if it were an network interface card on a machine.

wifi-link

A WiFi datalink.

bridge

A bridge instance, identified by an administratively-chosen name. The name may use any alphanumeric characters or the underscore, _, but must start and end with an alphabetic character. A bridge name can be at most 31 characters. The name default is reserved, as are all names starting with SUNW.

Note that appending a zero (0) to a bridge name produces a valid link name, used for observability.

Also note that the bridge-related subcommands, described with dladm subcommands below, require installation of the pkg://solaris/network/bridging package.

dev

A network device, identified by concatenation of a driver name and an instance number.

etherstub

An Ethernet stub can be used instead of a physical NIC to create VNICs. VNICs created on an etherstub will appear to be connected through a virtual switch, allowing complete virtual networks to be built without physical hardware.

part

An IB partition link created on a IB physical link.

secobj

A secure object, identified by an administratively-chosen name. The name can use any alphanumeric characters, as well as underscore (_), period (.), and hyphen (-). A secure object name can be at most 32 characters.

dladm is implemented as a set of subcommands with corresponding options. Options are described in the context of each subcommand. Many of the subcommands have the following as a common option:

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

Specifies an alternate root directory where the operation-such as creation, deletion, or renaming-should apply.

dladm also supports a command form with no arguments. When invoked this way, dladm displays basic configuration information for all datalinks on a system. See EXAMPLES.

SUBCOMMANDS

The following subcommands are supported:

dladm show-link [–PZ] [[–p] –o field[,...]] [–z zone[,...]] [link]

Show link configuration information either for all datalinks or for the specified link. By default, the system is configured with one datalink for each known network device. The option to print link statistics is moved to dlstat(1M).

–o field[,...], – –output=field[,...]

A case-insensitive, comma-separated list of output fields to display. The field name must be one fields listed below, or the special value all to display all fields. By default (without –o ), show-link displays all fields.

LINK

The name of the datalink.

ZONE

The current zone of the datalink.

CLASS

The class of the datalink. dladm distinguishes between the following classes:

aggr

Link Aggregation either as Datalink Multipathing (dlmp) or IEEE 802.3ad trunk. The show-aggr subcommand displays more details for this class of datalink.

bridge

A bridge instance, identified by an administratively-chosen name.

eoib

An EoIB interface. The show-eoib subcommand displays more detail for this class of datalink.

etherstub

Instance of an etherstub. An Ethernet stub can be used instead of a physical NIC to create VNICs. VNICs created on an etherstub will appear to be connected through a virtual switch, allowing complete virtual networks to be built without physical hardware.

iptun

An instance of an IP tunnel link.

part

An IP-over-IB interface. The show-part subcommand displays more detail for this class of datalink.

phys

A physical datalink. The show-phys subcommand displays more detail for this class of datalink.

vlan

A VLAN datalink. The show-vlan subcommand displays more detail for this class of datalink.

vnic

A virtual network interface. The show-vnic subcommand displays more detail for this class of datalink.

MTU

The maximum transmission unit size for the datalink being displayed.

STATE

The virtual link state of the datalink. The state can be up, down, or unknown. When a NIC is carved up into multiple virtual NICs (VNICs), then a virtual switch is created internally to allow the VNICs and the primary datalink to communicate as long as they are on the same VLAN. These datalinks can talk to each other, even if the physical datalink has no connection with the external network. This forms the virtual link state of the datalink.

BRIDGE

The name of the bridge to which this link is assigned, if any.

OVER

The physical datalink(s) over which the datalink is operating. This applies to aggr, bridge, eoib, vlan and part classes of datalinks. A VLAN, IB partition, or EoIB datalink is created over a single physical datalink, a bridge has multiple attached links, and an aggregation is comprised of one or more physical datalinks.

–p, –-parseable

Display using a stable machine-parseable format. The –o option is required with –p. See “Parseable Output Format”, below.

–P, –-persistent

Display the persistent link configuration.

–Z

Display ZONE column in the output.

–z zone[,...]

Display links from the specified zones. By default, dladm displays links in all the zones when it is run from the global zone. The links in other zones are displayed with the corresponding zonename as its prefix, followed by the slash (/) separator. For example, zone1/net0

When run from a non-global zone, this subcommand displays only links from that zone. A non-global zone cannot see links in other zones.

dladm rename-link [–R root-dir] link new-link

Rename link to new-link. This is used to give a link a meaningful name, or to associate existing link configuration such as link properties of a removed device with a new device. See the EXAMPLES section for specific examples of how this subcommand is used.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

dladm delete-phys phys-link

This command is used to delete the persistent configuration of a link associated with physical hardware which has been removed from the system.

Layer 3 components such as ip interfaces should be deleted manually using the ipadm delete commands. See the EXAMPLES section.

dladm show-phys [–PZ] [–Lm] [[–p] –o field [,...]] [–H] [–z zone[,...]] [–D [dcb-feature] [–lr]] [–V] [phys-link]

Show the physical device and attributes of all physical links, or of the named physical link. Without –P, only physical links that are available on the running system are displayed.

–D [dcb-feature]

Show DCB (Data Center Bridging)-related configuration information on the phys-link. Supported dcb-features include ets (Enhanced Transmission Selection, IEEE 802.1Qaz) and pfc (Priority-based Flow Control, IEEE 802.1Qbb). The output for dcb-feature is unstable.

Output from –D ets displays the following elements for ETS DCB feature:

LINK

The name of the datalink.

COS

802.1p priority value.

ETSBW_LCL_EFFECT

The effective ETS BW as a percentage for the CoS (802.1p priority) value.

ETSBW_RMT_EFFECT

The effective ETS BW as a percentage for the CoS (802.1p priority) value on the peer.

ETSBW_LCL_SOURCE

Indicates the source for ETSBW_LCL_EFFECT value. This could be either local (configured) or remote (recommended) value.

CLIENTS

MAC clients that are using the CoS value.

–l

For ETS DCB feature, this shows additional local information:

ETSBW_LCL

The configured ETS BW as a percentage for the CoS (802.1p priority) value.

ETSBW_LCL_EFFECT

The effective ETS BW as a percentage for the CoS (802.1p priority) value.

ETSBW_LCL_ADVICE:

The ETS BW as a percentage for the CoS (802.1p priority) value that is recommended by the peer.

–r

For ETS DCB feature, this shows additional remote information:

ETSBW_RMT_EFFECT

The effective ETS BW as a percentage for the CoS (802.1p priority) value on the peer.

ETSBW_RMT_ADVICE:

The ETS BW as a percentage for the CoS (802.1p priority) value that is recommended to the peer.

Output from –D pfc displays the LINK, COS, and CLIENTS fields, just the same as the –D ets output. In addition, –D pfc displays the following elements specifically for PFC DCB feature:

PFC

If the configured PFC is enabled for the CoS (802.1p priority) value.

PFC_EFFECT

If the effective PFC is enabled for the CoS (802.1p priority) value.

–H

Show hardware resource usage, as returned by the NIC driver. Output from –H displays the following elements:

LINK

The name of the datalink.

RINGTYPE

The type of the ring, either RX or TX.

RINGS

The ring index. A ring is an hardware resource, which typically maps to a DMA channel, that can be programmed for specific use. For example, an RX ring can be programmed to receive only packets belonging to a specific MAC address.

CLIENTS

MAC clients that are using the rings.

–L

Display location information for the physical devices/links. Output is in location order—that is, onboard devices before expansion slots—and location information (for example, PCIexp Slot 2, MB) is supplied where available. Output from –L supports the following elements:

LINK

A physical device corresponding to a NIC driver.

DEVICE

The name of the physical device under this link.

LOC

Physical location description string (where available).

–m

Display the list of factory MAC addresses, their slot identifiers, and their availability.

–V

Display SR-IOV information for a physical link. The output shows:

LINK

The physical link name.

VFS-AVAIL

The number of VFs available on this physical link.

VFS-INUSE

The number of VFs in use by this physical link.

FLAGS

The only possible flag is l, which stands for LDOMs-managed. If this flag is set, dladm will not be able to create VF VNICs on this physical link.

–o field, – -output=field

A case-insensitive, comma-separated list of output fields to display. The field name must be one of the fields listed below, or the special value all, to display all fields. For each link, the following fields can be displayed:

LINK

The name of the datalink.

MEDIA

The media type provided by the physical datalink.

STATE

The physical link state of the datalink. This can be up, down, or unknown. The physical link state identifies whether the physical device has connectivity with the external network (it does, if the cable is plugged in and the state of the port on the other end of the cable is "up").

SPEED

The current speed of the link, in megabits per second.

DUPLEX

For Ethernet links, the full/half duplex status of the link is displayed if the link state is up. The duplex is displayed as unknown in all other cases.

DEVICE

The name of the physical device under this link.

–p, –-parseable

Display using a stable machine-parseable format. The –o option is required with –p. See “Parseable Output Format”, below.

–P, –-persistent

This option displays persistent configuration for all links, including those that have been removed from the system. The output provides a FLAGS column in which the r flag indicates that the physical device associated with a physical link has been removed. For such links, delete-phys can be used to purge the link's configuration from the system.

–Z

Display ZONE column in the output.

–z zone[,...]

See description of –z option under dladm show-link, above.

By default, Solaris assigns link names with the prefix of net. Before installing Solaris, you can change this default by modifying the value of the linkname-policy/phys-prefix SMF property of the service svc:/network/datalink-management:default. Specify a new value for this property in the System Configuration manifests used the Automated Install (AI) program. See Chapter 2, Administering Datalink Configuration in Oracle Solaris in Configuring and Managing Network Components in Oracle Solaris 11.3 for details.

dladm create-aggr [–t] [–R root-dir] [–m mode] [–P policy] [–L lcapmode] [–T time] [–u address] – l ether-link1 [–l ether-link2...] aggr-link

Combine a set of links into a single link aggregation named aggr-link. The aggregation could be Datalink Multipathing (dlmp) or IEEE 802.3ad compliant. The use of an integer key to generate a link name for the aggregation is also supported for backward compatibility. Many of the *-aggr subcommands below also support the use of a key to refer to a given aggregation, but use of the aggregation link name is preferred. See the NOTES section for more information on keys.

dladm supports a number of port selection policies for an aggregation of ports. (See the description of the –P option, below.) If you do not specify a policy, create-aggr uses the default, the L4 policy, described under the –P option.

–l ether-link, – -link=ether-link

Each Ethernet link (or port) in the aggregation is specified using an –l option followed by the name of the link to be included in the aggregation. Multiple links are included in the aggregation by specifying multiple –l options. For backward compatibility with previous versions of Solaris, the dladm command also supports the using the –d option (or –-dev) with a device name to specify links by their underlying device name. The other *-aggr subcommands that take –loptions also accept –d.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the aggregation is temporary. Temporary aggregations last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

–m mode

Mode must be set to one of the following:

trunk

IEEE 802.3ad compliant link aggregation. If unspecified, mode is trunk.

dlmp

Datalink Multipathing mode. A layer 2 high availability technology that can provide failover among multiple switches, and does not require switch configuration. A dlmp link aggregation can also aggregate ports connected to same switch. However, it cannot be used in back-to-back setup.

An dlmp link aggregation is limited in its load-spreading ability: MAC clients configured on plumbed dlmp aggr are distributed across all aggr ports but an individual MAC client cannot spread load across multiple ports.

This mode is not IEEE 802.3ad compliant. Setting policy, lacpmode, time or MAC address is invalid in this mode.

–P policy, – -policy=policy

Specifies the port selection policy to use for load spreading of outbound traffic. The policy specifies which dev object is used to send packets. A policy is a list of one or more layers specifiers separated by commas. A layer specifier is one of the following:

L2

Select outbound device according to source and destination MAC addresses of the packet.

L3

Select outbound device according to source and destination IP addresses of the packet.

L4

Select outbound device according to the upper layer protocol information contained in the packet. For TCP and UDP, this includes source and destination ports. For IPsec, this includes the SPI (Security Parameters Index).

For example, to use upper layer protocol information, the following policy can be used:

-P L4

Note that policy L4 is the default.

To use the source and destination MAC addresses as well as the source and destination IP addresses, the following policy can be used:

-P L2,L3
–L lacpmode, – -lacp-mode=mode

Specifies whether LACP should be used and, if used, the mode in which it should operate. Supported values are off, active or passive.

–T time, –-lacp-timer =time

Specifies the LACP timer value. The supported values are short or long.

–u address, – -unicast=address

Specifies a fixed unicast hardware address to be used for the aggregation. If this option is not specified, then an address is automatically chosen from the set of addresses of the component devices.

dladm modify-aggr [–t] [–R root-dir] [–m mode] [–P policy] [–L lacpmode] [–T time] [–u address] aggr-link

Modify the parameters of the specified aggregation.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the modification is temporary. Temporary aggregations last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

–m mode

See description of –m mode option under create-aggr subcommand, above.

–P policy, – -policy=policy

Specifies the port selection policy to use for load spreading of outbound traffic. See dladm create-aggr for a description of valid policy values.

–L lacpmode, – -lacp-mode=mode

Specifies whether LACP should be used and, if used, the mode in which it should operate. Supported values are off, active, or passive.

–T time, –-lacp-timer =time

Specifies the LACP timer value. The supported values are short or long.

–u address, – -unicast=address

Specifies a fixed unicast hardware address to be used for the aggregation. If this option is not specified, then an address is automatically chosen from the set of addresses of the component devices.

(Note that modification of the fixed unicast hardware address will override any previously defined mac-address link property defined for the aggregation. See “General Link Properties”.)

dladm delete-aggr [–t] [–R root-dir] aggr-link

Deletes the specified aggregation.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the deletion is temporary. Temporary deletions last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

dladm add-aggr [–t] [–R root-dir] –l ether-link1 [–-link=ether-link2...] aggr-link

Adds links to the specified aggregation.

–l ether-link, – -link=ether-link

Specifies an Ethernet link to add to the aggregation. Multiple links can be added by supplying multiple –l options.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the additions are temporary. Temporary additions last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

dladm remove-aggr [–t] [–R root-dir] –l ether-link1 [–-l=ether-link2...] aggr-link

Removes links from the specified aggregation.

–l ether-link, – -link=ether-link

Specifies an Ethernet link to remove from the aggregation. Multiple links can be added by supplying multiple –l options.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the removals are temporary. Temporary removal last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

dladm show-aggr [–PLxZS] [–s [–i interval]] [[–p] –o field[,...]] [–z zone[,...]] [aggr-link ]

Show aggregation configuration (the default), LACP information or DLMP probe-based failure/recovery detection status either for all aggregations or for the specified aggregation.

By default (with no options), the following fields can be displayed:

LINK

The name of the aggregation link.

MODE

The aggregation mode, either trunk or dlmp.

POLICY

The LACP policy of the aggregation. See the create-aggr – P option for a description of the possible values.

ADDRPOLICY

Either auto, if the aggregation is configured to automatically configure its unicast MAC address (the default if the –u option was not used to create or modify the aggregation), or fixed, if –u was used to set a fixed MAC address.

LACPACTIVITY

The LACP mode of the aggregation. Possible values are off , active, or passive, as set by the –l option to create-aggr or modify-aggr .

LACPTIMER

The LACP timer value of the aggregation as set by the –T option of create-aggr or modify-aggr.

The following field is not part of the default output, but can be queried using –o.

FLAGS

A set of state flags associated with the aggregation. The only possible flag is f, which is displayed if the administrator forced the creation the aggregation using the –f option to create-aggr. Other flags might be defined in the future.

The show-aggr command accepts the following options:

–L, –-lacp

Displays detailed LACP information for the aggregation link and each underlying port. Most of the state information displayed by this option is defined by IEEE 802.3. With this option, the following fields can be displayed:

LINK

The name of the aggregation link.

PORT

The name of one of the underlying aggregation ports.

AGGREGATABLE

Whether the port can be added to the aggregation.

SYNC

If yes, the system considers the port to be synchronized and part of the aggregation.

COLL

If yes, collection of incoming frames is enabled on the associated port.

DIST

If yes, distribution of outgoing frames is enabled on the associated port.

DEFAULTED

If yes, the port is using defaulted partner information (that is, has not received LACP data from the LACP partner).

EXPIRED

If yes, the receive state of the port is in the EXPIRED state.

–x, –-extended

Display additional aggregation information including detailed information on each underlying port. With –x, the following fields can be displayed:

LINK

The name of the aggregation link.

PORT

The name of one of the underlying aggregation ports.

SPEED

The speed of the link or port in megabits per second.

DUPLEX

The full/half duplex status of the link or port is displayed if the link state is up. The duplex status is displayed as unknown in all other cases.

STATE

The link state. This can be up, down, or unknown.

ADDRESS

The MAC address of the link or port.

PORTSTATE

This indicates whether the individual aggregation port is in the standby or attached state.

–S

Displays detailed probe information for the given DLMP aggregation link and each underlying port. With –S, the following fields can be displayed:

LINK

The name of the aggregation link.

PORT

The name of one of the underlying aggregation ports.

FLAGS

The four letters of the FLAGS field represent:

link state

'u' for link up, 'd' for link down or '-' for unknown link state.

prober state

'p' for elected ICMP prober (in case all ports are failed).

L2 state

'2' for "L2 active".

ICMP state

'3' for "ICMP active".

STATE

The state of the port. Possible values can be "active", "failed or "unknown".

TARGETS

The active ICMP targets for this port.

XTARGETS

The active transitive probe targets for this port.

–o field[,...], – -output=field[,...]

A case-insensitive, comma-separated list of output fields to display. The field name must be one of the fields listed above, or the special value all, to display all fields. The fields applicable to the –o option are limited to those listed under each output mode. For example, if using –L, only the fields listed under – L, above, can be used with –o.

–p, –-parseable

Display using a stable machine-parseable format. The –o option is required with –p. See “Parseable Output Format”, below.

–P, –-persistent

Display the persistent aggregation configuration rather than the state of the running system.

–Z

Display ZONE column in the output.

–z zone[,...]

See description of –z option under dladm show-link, above.

dladm create-bridge [ –P protect] [–R root-dir] [ –p priority] [ –m max-age] [ –h hello-time] [ –d forward-delay] [ –f force-protocol] [–l link...] bridge-name

Create an 802.1D bridge instance and optionally assign one or more network links to the new bridge. By default, no bridge instances are present on the system.

In order to bridge between links, you must create at least one bridge instance. Each bridge instance is separate, and there is no forwarding connection between bridges.

Note that the bridge-related subcommands, create-bridge among them, require installation of the pkg://solaris/network/bridging package.

–P protect, – -protect=protect

Specifies a protection method. The defined protection methods are stp for the Spanning Tree Protocol and trill for TRILL, which is used on RBridges. The default value is stp.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

–p priority, – -priority=priority

Specifies the Bridge Priority. This sets the IEEE STP priority value for determining the root bridge node in the network. The default value is 32768. Valid values are 0 (highest priority) to 61440 (lowest priority), in increments of 4096.

If a value not evenly divisible by 4096 is used, the system silently rounds downward to the next lower value that is divisible by 4096.

–m max-age, – -max-age=max-age

Specifies the maximum age for configuration information in seconds. This sets the STP Bridge Max Age parameter. This value is used for all nodes in the network if this node is the root bridge. Bridge link information older than this time is discarded. It defaults to 20 seconds. Valid values are from 6 to 40 seconds. See the –d forward-delay parameter for additional constraints.

–h hello-time, – -hello-time=hello-time

Specifies the STP Bridge Hello Time parameter. When this node is the root node, it sends Configuration BPDUs at this interval throughout the network. The default value is 2 seconds. Valid values are from 1 to 10 seconds. See the –d forward-delay parameter for additional constraints.

–d forward-delay, – -forward-delay=forward-delay

Specifies the STP Bridge Forward Delay parameter. When this node is the root node, then all bridges in the network use this timer to sequence the link states when a port is enabled. The default value is 15 seconds. Valid values are from 4 to 30 seconds.

Bridges must obey the following two constraints:

2 * (forward-delay - 1.0) >= max-age


max-age >= 2 * (hello-time + 1.0)

Any parameter setting that would violate those constraints is treated as an error and causes the command to fail with a diagnostic message. The message provides valid alternatives to the supplied values.

–f force-protocol, – -force-protocol=force-protocol

Specifies the MSTP forced maximum supported protocol. The default value is 3. Valid values are non-negative integers. The current implementation does not support RSTP or MSTP, so this currently has no effect. However, to prevent MSTP from being used in the future, the parameter may be set to 0 for STP only or 2 for STP and RSTP.

–l link, –-link =link

Specifies one or more links to add to the newly-created bridge. This is similar to creating the bridge and then adding one or more links, as with the add-bridge subcommand. However, if any of the links cannot be added, the entire command fails, and the new bridge itself is not created. To add multiple links on the same command line, repeat this option for each link. You are permitted to create bridges without links. For more information about link assignments, see the add-bridge subcommand.

Bridge creation and link assignment require the PRIV_SYS_DL_CONFIG privilege. Bridge creation might fail if the optional bridging feature is not installed on the system.

dladm modify-bridge [ –P protect] [–R root-dir] [ –p priority] [ –m max-age] [ –h hello-time] [ –d forward-delay] [ –f force-protocol] [–l link...] bridge-name

Modify the operational parameters of an existing bridge. The options are the same as for the create-bridge subcommand, except that the –l option is not permitted. To add links to an existing bridge, use the add-bridge subcommand.

Bridge parameter modification requires the PRIV_SYS_DL_CONFIG privilege.

dladm delete-bridge [–R root-dir] bridge-name

Delete a bridge instance. The bridge being deleted must not have any attached links. Use the remove-bridge subcommand to deactivate links before deleting a bridge.

Bridge deletion requires the PRIV_SYS_DL_CONFIG privilege.

The –R (–-root-dir) option is the same as for the create-bridge subcommand.

dladm add-bridge [–R root-dir] –l link [– l link...] bridge-name

Add one or more links to an existing bridge. If multiple links are specified, and adding any one of them results in an error, the command fails and no changes are made to the system.

Link addition to a bridge requires the PRIV_SYS_DL_CONFIG privilege.

A link may be a member of at most one bridge. An error occurs when you attempt to add a link that already belongs to another bridge. To move a link from one bridge instance to another, remove it from the current bridge before adding it to a new one.

The links assigned to a bridge must not also be VLANs, VNICs, or tunnels. Only physical Ethernet datalinks, aggregation datalinks, and Ethernet stubs are permitted to be assigned to a bridge.

Links assigned to a bridge must all have the same MTU. This is checked when the link is assigned. The link is added to the bridge in a deactivated form if it is not the first link on the bridge and it has a differing MTU.

Note that systems using bridging should not set the eeprom(1M) local-mac-address? variable to false.

The options are the same as for the create-bridge subcommand.

dladm remove-bridge [–R root-dir] –l link [– l link...] bridge-name

Remove one or more links from a bridge instance. If multiple links are specified, and removing any one of them would result in an error, the command fails and none are removed.

Link removal from a bridge requires the PRIV_SYS_DL_CONFIG privilege.

The options are the same as for the create-bridge subcommand.

dladm show-bridge [–flt] [–s [–i interval]] [[–p] –o field,...] [bridge-name]

Show the running status and configuration of bridges, their attached links, learned forwarding entries, and TRILL nickname databases. When showing overall bridge status and configuration, the bridge name can be omitted to show all bridges. The other forms require a specified bridge.

The show-bridge subcommand accepts the following options:

–i interval, – -interval=interval

Used with the –s option to specify an interval, in seconds, at which statistics should be displayed. If this option is not specified, statistics will be displayed only once. This option is made obsolete by the show-bridge subcommand in dlstat(1M).

–s, –-statistics

Display statistics for the specified bridges or for a given bridge's attached links. This option cannot be used with the –f and – t options. This option is made obsolete by the show-bridge subcommand in dlstat(1M).

–p, –-parseable

Display using a stable machine-parsable format. See “Parsable Output Format,” below.

–o field[,...], – -output=field[,...]

A case-insensitive, comma-separated list of output fields to display. The field names are described below. The special value all displays all fields. Each set of fields has its own default set to display when –o is not specified.

By default, the show-bridge subcommand shows bridge configuration. The following fields can be shown:

BRIDGE

The name of the bridge.

ADDRESS

The Bridge Unique Identifier value (MAC address).

PRIORITY

Configured priority value; set by –p with create-bridge and modify-bridge.

BMAXAGE

Configured bridge maximum age; set by –m with create-bridge and modify-bridge.

BHELLOTIME

Configured bridge hello time; set by –h with create-bridge and modify-bridge.

BFWDDELAY

Configured forwarding delay; set by –d with create-bridge and modify-bridge.

FORCEPROTO

Configured forced maximum protocol; set by –f with create-bridge and modify-bridge.

TCTIME

Time, in seconds, since last topology change.

TCCOUNT

Count of the number of topology changes.

TCHANGE

This indicates that a topology change was detected.

DESROOT

Bridge Identifier of the root node.

ROOTCOST

Cost of the path to the root node.

ROOTPORT

Port number used to reach the root node.

MAXAGE

Maximum age value from the root node.

HELLOTIME

Hello time value from the root node.

FWDDELAY

Forward delay value from the root node.

HOLDTIME

Minimum BPDU interval.

By default, when the –o option is not specified, only the BRIDGE, ADDRESS, PRIORITY, and DESROOT fields are shown.

When the –s option is specified, the show-bridge subcommand shows bridge statistics. The following fields can be shown:

BRIDGE

Bridge name.

DROPS

Number of packets dropped due to resource problems.

FORWARDS

Number of packets forwarded from one link to another.

MBCAST

Number of multicast and broadcast packets handled by the bridge.

RECV

Number of packets received on all attached links.

SENT

Number of packets sent on all attached links.

UNKNOWN

Number of packets handled that have an unknown destination. Such packets are sent to all links.

By default, when the –o option is not specified, only the BRIDGE, DROPS, and FORWARDS fields are shown.

The show-bridge subcommand also accepts the following options:

–l, –-link

Displays link-related status and statistics information for all links attached to a single bridge instance. By using this option and without the –s option, the following fields can be displayed for each link:

LINK

The link name.

INDEX

Port (link) index number on the bridge.

STATE

State of the link. The state can be disabled, discarding, learning, forwarding, non-stp, or bad-mtu.

UPTIME

Number of seconds since the last reset or initialization.

OPERCOST

Actual cost in use (1-65535).

OPERP2P

This indicates whether point-to-point (P2P) mode been detected.

OPEREDGE

This indicates whether edge mode has been detected.

DESROOT

The Root Bridge Identifier that has been seen on this port.

DESCOST

Path cost to the network root node through the designated port.

DESBRIDGE

Bridge Identifier for this port.

DESPORT

The ID and priority of the port used to transmit configuration messages for this port.

TCACK

This indicates whether Topology Change Acknowledge has been seen.

When the –l option is specified without the –o option, only the LINK, STATE, UPTIME, and DESROOT fields are shown.

When the –l option is specified, the –s option can be used to display the following fields for each link:

LINK

Link name.

CFGBPDU

Number of configuration BPDUs received.

TCNBPDU

Number of topology change BPDUs received.

RSTPBPDU

Number of Rapid Spanning Tree BPDUs received.

TXBPDU

Number of BPDUs transmitted.

DROPS

Number of packets dropped due to resource problems.

RECV

Number of packets received by the bridge.

XMIT

Number of packets sent by the bridge.

When the –o option is not specified, only the LINK , DROPS, RECV, and XMIT fields are shown.

–f, –-forwarding

Displays forwarding entries for a single bridge instance. With this option, the following fields can be shown for each forwarding entry:

DEST

Destination MAC address.

AGE

Age of entry in seconds and milliseconds. Omitted for local entries.

FLAGS

The L (local) flag is shown if the MAC address belongs to an attached link or to a VNIC on one of the attached links.

OUTPUT

For local entries, this is the name of the attached link that has the MAC address. Otherwise, for bridges that use Spanning Tree Protocol, this is the output interface name. For RBridges, this is the output TRILL nickname.

When the –o option is not specified, the DEST, AGE, FLAGS, and OUTPUT fields are shown.

–t, –-trill

Displays TRILL nickname entries for a single bridge instance. With this option, the following fields can be shown for each TRILL nickname entry:

NICK

TRILL nickname for this RBridge, which is a number from 1 to 65535.

FLAGS

The L flag is shown if the nickname identifies the local system.

LINK

Link name for output when sending messages to this RBridge.

NEXTHOP

MAC address of the next hop RBridge that is used to reach the RBridge with this nickname.

When the –o option is not specified, the NICK, FLAGS, LINK, and NEXTHOP fields are shown.

dladm create-vlan [–ft] [–R root-dir] –l ether-link –v vid[,pvlan-svid[,pvlan-type]] [vlan-link]

Create a tagged VLAN link with an ID of vid over Ethernet link ether-link. The name of the VLAN link can be specified as vlan-link. The name can be specified as zonename/linkname, which will create the VLAN in the given zone's namespace. If the name is not specified, a name will be automatically generated (assuming that ether-link is namePPA) as:

<name><1000 * vlan-tag + 
PPA>

For example, if ether-link is bge1 and vid is 2, the name generated is bge2001.

–f, ––force

Force the creation of the VLAN link. Some devices do not allow frame sizes large enough to include a VLAN header. When creating a VLAN link over such a device, the –f option is needed, and the MTU of the IP interfaces on the resulting VLAN must be set to 1496 instead of 1500.

–l ether-link

Specifies Ethernet link over which VLAN is created.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the VLAN link is temporary. Temporary VLAN links last until the next reboot. The –t option must be specified if the VLAN is created in a non-global zone's namespace.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

dladm modify-vlan [–t] [–R root-dir] [–l ether-link] [–v vid[,pvlan-svid[,pvlan-type]] [–f]] {vlan-link,[vlan-link,...] | –L source-ether-link}

Modifies the underlying link and/or the VLAN-ID of the specified VLAN link(s). The VLAN link(s) can be specified as a comma-delimited list or as –L source-ether-link to indicate “all VLANs on source-ether-link”.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the VLAN modification is temporary.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

–l ether-link

Specifies the Ethernet link to which to move the VLAN(s). The Ethernet link must be different from the current one the VLAN(s) is or are using.

–v vid, [pvlan-svid,[pvlan-type]] [–f]

Specifies the VLAN-ID to be used. This option can be used only if a single VLAN link is specified. The purpose of the –f option is the same as in create-vlan, above.

dladm delete-vlan [-t] [-R root-dir] vlan-link

Delete the VLAN link specified.

The delete-vlansubcommand accepts the following options:

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the deletion is temporary. Temporary deletions last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

dladm show-vlan [–PZ] [[–p] –o field[,...]] [–z zone[,...]] [vlan-link ]

Display VLAN configuration for all VLAN links or for the specified VLAN link.

The show-vlan subcommand accepts the following options:

–o field[,...], – -output=field[,...]

A case-insensitive, comma-separated list of output fields to display. The field name must be one of the fields listed below, or the special value all, to display all fields. For each VLAN link, the following fields can be displayed:

LINK

The name of the VLAN link.

VID

The ID associated with the VLAN. Or the Primary VID associated with a PVLAN.

SVID

The PVLAN Secondary VLAN ID assocated with the VNIC.

PVLAN-TYPE

The PVLAN type associated with the VNIC.

OVER

The name of the physical link over which this VLAN is configured.

FLAGS

A set of flags associated with the VLAN link. Possible flags are:

f

The VLAN was created using the –f option to create-vlan.

i

The VLAN was implicitly created when the DLPI link was opened. These VLAN links are automatically deleted on last close of the DLPI link (for example, when the IP interface associated with the VLAN link is unplumbed).

Additional flags might be defined in the future.

–p, –-parseable

Display using a stable machine-parseable format. The –o option is required with –p. See “Parseable Output Format”, below.

–P, –-persistent

Display the persistent VLAN configuration rather than the state of the running system.

–Z

Display ZONE column in the output.

–z zone[,...]

See description of –z option under dladm show-link, above.

dladm scan-wifi [[–p] – o field[,...]] [wifi-link]

Scans for WiFi networks, either on all WiFi links, or just on the specified wifi-link.

By default, currently all fields but BSSTYPE are displayed.

–o field[,...], – -output=field[,...]

A case-insensitive, comma-separated list of output fields to display. The field name must be one of the fields listed below, or the special value all to display all fields. For each WiFi network found, the following fields can be displayed:

LINK

The name of the link the WiFi network is on.

ESSID

The ESSID (name) of the WiFi network.

BSSID

Either the hardware address of the WiFi network's Access Point (for BSS networks), or the WiFi network's randomly generated unique token (for IBSS networks).

SEC

Either none for a WiFi network that uses no security, wep for a WiFi network that requires WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), or wpa for a WiFi network that requires WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access).

MODE

The supported connection modes: one or more of a, b, g, or n.

STRENGTH

The strength of the signal: one of excellent, very good, good, weak, or very weak.

SPEED

The maximum speed of the WiFi network, in megabits per second.

BSSTYPE

Either bss for BSS (infrastructure) networks, or ibss for IBSS (ad-hoc) networks.

–p, –-parseable

Display using a stable machine-parseable format. The –o option is required with –p. See “Parseable Output Format”, below.

dladm connect-wifi [–e essid] [–i bssid] [–k key,...] [–s none | wep | wpa] [–a open|shared] [–b bss| ibss] [–c] [–m a| b|g|n] [–T time] [wifi-link]

Connects to a WiFi network. This consists of four steps: discovery, filtration, prioritization, and association. However, to enable connections to non-broadcast WiFi networks and to improve performance, if a BSSID or ESSID is specified using the –e or –i options, then the first three steps are skipped and connect-wifi immediately attempts to associate with a BSSID or ESSID that matches the rest of the provided parameters. If this association fails, but there is a possibility that other networks matching the specified criteria exist, then the traditional discovery process begins as specified below.

The discovery step finds all available WiFi networks on the specified WiFi link, which must not yet be connected. For administrative convenience, if there is only one WiFi link on the system, wifi-link can be omitted.

Once discovery is complete, the list of networks is filtered according to the value of the following options:

–e essid, – -essid=essid

Networks that do not have the same essid are filtered out.

–b bss|ibss, – -bsstype=bss|ibss

Networks that do not have the same bsstype are filtered out.

–m a|b| g, –-mode=a|b| g|n

Networks not appropriate for the specified 802.11 mode are filtered out.

–k key,..., – -key=key, ...

Use the specified secobj named by the key to connect to the network. Networks not appropriate for the specified keys are filtered out.

–s none|wep| wpa, –-sec=none|wep| wpa

Networks not appropriate for the specified security mode are filtered out.

Next, the remaining networks are prioritized, first by signal strength, and then by maximum speed. Finally, an attempt is made to associate with each network in the list, in order, until one succeeds or no networks remain.

In addition to the options described above, the following options also control the behavior of connect-wifi:

–a open|shared, – -auth=open|shared

Connect using the specified authentication mode. By default, open and shared are tried in order.

–c, –-create-ibss

Used with -b ibss to create a new ad-hoc network if one matching the specified ESSID cannot be found. If no ESSID is specified, then -c -b ibss always triggers the creation of a new ad-hoc network.

–T time, –-timeout =time

Specifies the number of seconds to wait for association to succeed. If time is forever, then the associate will wait indefinitely. The current default is ten seconds, but this might change in the future. Timeouts shorter than the default might not succeed reliably.

–k key,..., – -key=key,...

In addition to the filtering previously described, the specified keys will be used to secure the association. The security mode to use will be based on the key class; if a security mode was explicitly specified, it must be compatible with the key class. All keys must be of the same class.

For security modes that support multiple key slots, the slot to place the key will be specified by a colon followed by an index. Therefore, -k mykey:3 places mykey in slot 3. By default, slot 1 is assumed. For security modes that support multiple keys, a comma-separated list can be specified, with the first key being the active key.

dladm disconnect-wifi [–a] [wifi-link]

Disconnect from one or more WiFi networks. If wifi-link specifies a connected WiFi link, then it is disconnected. For administrative convenience, if only one WiFi link is connected, wifi-link can be omitted.

–a, –-all-links

Disconnects from all connected links. This is primarily intended for use by scripts.

dladm show-wifi [–Z] [[–p] –o field,...] [–z zone[,...]] [wifi-link ]

Shows WiFi configuration information either for all WiFi links or for the specified link wifi-link .

–o field,..., – -output=field

A case-insensitive, comma-separated list of output fields to display. The field name must be one of the fields listed below, or the special value all, to display all fields. For each WiFi link, the following fields can be displayed:

LINK

The name of the link being displayed.

STATUS

Either connected if the link is connected, or disconnected if it is not connected. If the link is disconnected, all remaining fields have the value --.

ESSID

The ESSID (name) of the connected WiFi network.

BSSID

Either the hardware address of the WiFi network's Access Point (for BSS networks), or the WiFi network's randomly generated unique token (for IBSS networks).

SEC

Either none for a WiFi network that uses no security, wep for a WiFi network that requires WEP, or wpa for a WiFi network that requires WPA.

MODE

The supported connection modes: one or more of a, b, g, or n.

STRENGTH

The connection strength: one of excellent, very good, good, weak, or very weak.

SPEED

The connection speed, in megabits per second.

AUTH

Either open or shared (see connect-wifi).

BSSTYPE

Either bss for BSS (infrastructure) networks, or ibss for IBSS (ad-hoc) networks.

By default, currently all fields but AUTH, BSSID , BSSTYPE are displayed.

–p, –-parseable

Displays using a stable machine-parseable format. The –o option is required with –p. See “Parseable Output Format”, below.

–Z

Display ZONE column in the output.

–z zone[,...]

See description of –z option under dladm show-link, above.

dladm show-ether [–xZ] [[–p] –o field,...] [–z zone[,...]] [–P protocol] [ether-link]

Shows state information either for all physical Ethernet links or for a specified physical Ethernet link.

The show-ether subcommand accepts the following options:

–o field,..., – -output=field

A case-insensitive, comma-separated list of output fields to display. The field name must be one of the fields listed below, or the special value all to display all fields. For each link, the following fields can be displayed:

LINK

The name of the link being displayed.

PTYPE

Parameter type, where current indicates the negotiated state of the link, capable indicates capabilities supported by the device, adv indicates the advertised capabilities, and peeradv indicates the capabilities advertised by the link-partner.

STATE

The physical link state of the datalink. This can be up, down, or unknown. The physical link state identifies whether the physical device has connectivity with the external network (it does, if the cable is plugged in and the state of the port on the other end of the cable is "up").

AUTO

A yes/no value indicating whether auto-negotiation is advertised.

SPEED-DUPLEX

Combinations of speed and duplex values available. The units of speed are encoded with a trailing suffix of G (Gigabits/s) or M (Mb/s). Duplex values are encoded as f (full-duplex) or h (half-duplex).

PAUSE

Flow control information. Can be no, indicating no flow control is available; tx, indicating that the end-point can transmit pause frames, but ignores any received pause frames; rx, indicating that the end-point receives and acts upon received pause frames; or bi, indicating bi-directional flow-control.

REM_FAULT

Fault detection information. Valid values are none or fault.

By default, all fields except REM_FAULT are displayed for the “current” PTYPE.

–p, –-parseable

Displays using a stable machine-parseable format. The –o option is required with –p. See “Parseable Output Format”, below.

–P protocol

Displays information about supported Ethernet protocols. Supported protocols include vdp, the VSI Discovery and Configuration protocol, and ecp, Edge Control Protocol.

VDP information is specific to a VNIC. Thus, if the link argument is a phys-link, VDP information for all of the VNIC over the phys-link is displayed.

ECP information is specific to a phys-link.

For VDP, following information is displayed:

VSI

The name of the Virtual Station Interface (VSI) or VNIC.

LINK

The name of the physical link over which this VNIC is configured.

VSI-STATE

The state of the VDP protocol state machine for the VNIC. Supported states include ASSOC, DEASSOC, or TIMEDOUT.

VSIID

The identifier for the VSI or VNIC. This identifier is used by the bridge to associate properties with VNICs. Supported format for the VSIID is the MAC address. Thus, the VSIID for a VNIC is its MAC address.

VSI-TYPEID

This is VSI Type ID and Version associated with a VNIC and is of the form VSI Type ID/Version. The VSI Type identifies the properties associated with the VNIC.

CMD-PENDING

The VDP command that is currently in progress. Supported commands are: ASSOC, DEASSOC. The ASSOC command requests the bridge to associate properties with a VSI (identified by the VSIID), whereas the DEASSOC requests the bridge to disassociate the properties from a given VSIID.

FILTER-INFO

The information used by the switch to filter packets for a given VNIC. Supported format for Filter Info includes the MAC/VLAN ID combination. Thus, the FilterInfo for a VNIC is its MAC address and VLAN ID, if any.

KEEPALIVE-INTERVAL

The interval (in seconds) for Keep Alive messages to be transmitted for existing associations. The default is 11.6 secs.

RESP-TIMEOUT

The time (in seconds) to wait for a response from the bridge before timing out a request.

For ECP, following information is displayed:

LINK

The name of the physical link for the ECP instance.

MAC-RETRIES

The maximum number of transmission retries without receiving an acknowledgement from the peer.

TIMEOUT

The interval of time (in milliseconds) to wait for an acknowledgment from the peer.

–x, –-extended

Extended output is displayed for PTYPE values of current, capable, adv and peeradv.

–Z

Display ZONE column in the output.

–z zone[,...]

See description of –z option under dladm show-link, above.

dladm set-linkprop [–t] [–R root-dir] –p prop=value[,...] link

Sets the values of one or more properties on the link specified. The list of properties and their possible values depend on the link type, the network device driver, and networking hardware. These properties can be retrieved using show-linkprop.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the changes are temporary. Temporary changes last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

–p prop= value[,...], –-prop prop= value[,...]

A comma-separated list of properties to set to the specified values.

Note that when the persistent value is set, the temporary value changes to the same value.

dladm reset-linkprop [–t] [–R root-dir] [–p prop,...] link

Resets one or more properties to their values on the link specified. Properties are reset to the values they had at startup. If no properties are specified, all properties are reset. See show-linkprop for a description of properties.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the resets are temporary. Values are reset to default values. Temporary resets last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

–p prop, ..., – –prop=prop, ...

A comma-separated list of properties to reset.

Note that when the persistent value is reset, the temporary value changes to the same value.

dladm show-linkprop [–HPZ] [[–c] –o field[,...]][– p prop[,...]] [–z zone[,...]] [link]

Show the current or persistent values of one or more properties, either for all datalinks or for the specified link. By default, current values are shown. If no properties are specified, all available link properties are displayed. For each property, the following fields are displayed:

–o field[,...], – -output=field

A case-insensitive, comma-separated list of output fields to display. The field name must be one of the fields listed below, or the special value all to display all fields. For each link, the following fields can be displayed:

LINK

The name of the datalink.

PROPERTY

The name of the property.

PERM

The read/write permissions of the property. The value shown is one of ro or rw.

VALUE

The current (or persistent) property value. If the value is not set, it is shown as --. If it is unknown, the value is shown as ?. Persistent values that are not set or have been reset will be shown as -- and will use the system DEFAULT value (if any).

EFFECTIVE

The property value chosen by the system. For some properties the value chosen by the system may not be same as the value configured by the user. This is because the property value is constrained by the resource availability, capabilities of the underlying physical datalink, or in some cases the datalink partner.

DEFAULT

The default value of the property. If the property has no default value, -- is shown.

POSSIBLE

A comma-separated list of the values the property can have. If the values span a numeric range, min - max might be shown as shorthand. If the possible values are unknown or unbounded, -- is shown.

HWPOSSIBLE

Shows a value if there is hardware support. This explains that the physical NIC is capable of the property. A value of -- means there is no support.

SWPOSSIBLE

Shows a value if there is software support in the networking stack for the property. A value of -- means there is no support.

For both HWPOSSIBLE and SWPOSSIBLE, any granularity requirement (step value) for the value is shown after the number range followed by a :. Currently, only maxbw property shows a value for the step value.

MODE

Shows the current mode used for the data link to implement the property. Possible values or sw for software only, hw for hardware only and none for no support is possible for the link. Note that MODE can be none even though there is hardware or software support.

HWFLAGS and SWFLAGS currently show the flag o for outbound, i for inbound and oi for inbound and outbound. Currently, it shows a value only for the SLA properties, maxbw, bwshare and priority.

The list of properties depends on the link type and network device driver, and the available values for a given property further depends on the underlying network hardware and its state. General link properties are documented in the “General Link Properties” section. However, link properties that begin with “_” (underbar) are specific to a given link or its underlying network device and subject to change or removal. See the appropriate network device driver man page for details.

–c, –-parseable

Display using a stable machine-parseable format. The –o option is required with this option. See “Parseable Output Format”, below.

–H

Show-linkprop –H shows information on the underlying physical link capabilities and the networking stack software capabilities for supporting the property. Also, shows which mode is currently used for the data link.

–P, –-persistent

Display persistent link property information

–p prop, ..., – -prop=prop, ...

A comma-separated list of properties to show. See the sections on link properties following subcommand descriptions.

–Z

Display ZONE column in the output.

–z zone[,...]

See description of –z option under dladm show-link, above.

dladm create-secobj [–t] [–R root-dir] [–f file] –c class secobj

Create a secure object named secobj in the specified class to be later used as a WEP or WPA key in connecting to an encrypted network. The value of the secure object can either be provided interactively or read from a file. The sequence of interactive prompts and the file format depends on the class of the secure object.

Currently, the classes wep and wpa are supported. The WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) key can be either 5 or 13 bytes long. It can be provided either as an ASCII or hexadecimal string -- thus, 12345 and 0x3132333435 are equivalent 5-byte keys (the 0x prefix can be omitted). A file containing a WEP key must consist of a single line using either WEP key format. The WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) key must be provided as an ASCII string with a length between 8 and 63 bytes.

This subcommand is only usable by users or roles that belong to the “Network Link Security” RBAC profile.

–c class, – -class=class

class can be wep or wpa. See preceding discussion.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the creation is temporary. Temporary creation last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

–f file, –-file =file

Specifies a file that should be used to obtain the secure object's value. The format of this file depends on the secure object class. See the EXAMPLES section for an example of using this option to set a WEP key.

dladm delete-secobj [–t] [–R root-dir] secobj[,...]

Delete one or more specified secure objects. This subcommand is only usable by users or roles that belong to the “Network Link Security” RBAC profile.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the deletions are temporary. Temporary deletions last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

dladm show-secobj [–P] [[–p] –o field[,...]] [secobj,...]

Show current or persistent secure object information. If one or more secure objects are specified, then information for each is displayed. Otherwise, all current or persistent secure objects are displayed.

By default, current secure objects are displayed, which are all secure objects that have either been persistently created and not temporarily deleted, or temporarily created.

For security reasons, it is not possible to show the value of a secure object.

–o field[,...] , –-output=field[,...]

A case-insensitive, comma-separated list of output fields to display. The field name must be one of the fields listed below. For displayed secure object, the following fields can be shown:

OBJECT

The name of the secure object.

CLASS

The class of the secure object.

–p, –-parseable

Display using a stable machine-parseable format. The –o option is required with –p. See “Parseable Output Format”, below.

–P, –-persistent

Display persistent secure object information

dladm create-vnic [–t] [–f] – l link [–R root-dir ] [–m value | auto | {factory [–n slot-identifier]} | {vrrp –A {inet | inet6} –V vrid} | {random [–r prefix]}] [–v vlan-id] [–P pkey] [–p prop=value[,...]] vnic-link

Create a VNIC with name vnic-link over the specified link. The vnic-link can be specified as zonename/linkname, which will create the VNIC in the given zone's namespace.

–t, ––temporary

Specifies that the VNIC is temporary. Temporary VNICs last until the next reboot. The –t option must be specified if the VNIC is to be created in a non-global zone's namespace.

–f, –-force

If the VNIC is a IPoIB VNIC, force the creation of the VNIC even if pkey is absent on the port, the multicast group is absent, or the port is down.

–R root-dir, – –root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

–l link, ––link =link

link can be a physical link, an etherstub, or an aggregation link (aggr-link).

–m value | keyword, ––mac-address=value | keyword

This option only applies to Ethernet VNICs.

Sets the VNIC's MAC address based on the specified value or keyword. If value is not a keyword, it is interpreted as a unicast MAC address, which must be valid for the underlying NIC. A user-specified MAC address must be drawn from the ranges specified by the Globally Unique and Locally Administered types of MAC addresses.

The following special keywords can be used:

factory [–n slot-identifier],
factory [––slot=slot-identifier]

Assign a factory MAC address to the VNIC. When a factory MAC address is requested, –m can be combined with the –n option to specify a MAC address slot to be used. If –n is not specified, the system will choose the next available factory MAC address. The –m option of the show-phys subcommand can be used to display the list of factory MAC addresses, their slot identifiers, and their availability.

random [–r prefix],
random [––mac-prefix= prefix]

Assign a random MAC address to the VNIC. A default prefix consisting of a valid IEEE OUI with the local bit set will be used. That prefix can be overridden with the –r option.

vrrp –A {inet | inet6} –V vrid

Assign a VRRP virtual MAC address to the VNIC base on the specified address family and vrid.

auto

Try and use a factory MAC address first. If none is available, assign a random MAC address. auto is the default action if the –m option is not specified.

–v vlan-id

This option only applies to Ethernet VNICs.

Enable VLAN tagging for this VNIC. The VLAN tag will have id vlan-id.


Note -  dladm create-vnic may fail while creating a vNIC over an EoIB (Ethernet-over-Infiniband) data link, if executed right after the Infiniband gateway switch's disallowhostconfig or allowhostconfig command. The commands restart the bridge manager on the gateway, triggering a series of asynchronous events between the gateway and the host. It takes some time to finalize those events and vNIC creation requests prematurely generated by the host get rejected.

To avoid this, wait for after the disallowhostconfig or allowhostconfig command returns and before executing the create-vnic command.


–P, –-pkey=pkey

Partition key to be used. This option is mandatory for IPoIB VNICs and not applicable for other type of links. pkey specified is always treated as hexadecimal, whether it has the 0x prefix or not.

–p prop= value,..., ––prop prop= value,...

A comma-separated list of properties to set to the specified values.

dladm create-vnic –t –c <evsname>[/<vportname>] [–T <tenant>] <vnic-link>

Note -  You must install Elastic Virtual Switch (EVS) IPS packages to use this form of create-vnic, and then configure EVS controller as described in the evsadm(1M) manpage and Managing Network Virtualization and Network Resources in Oracle Solaris 11.3.

Creates a VNIC with name vnic-link, by connecting to a EVS evsname at optionally provided Virtual Port (VPort) vportname. If the tenantname is provided, then the EVS will be searched in tenant's namespace. If VPort is specified, then the SLA properties (maxbw, cos, and priority), IP address, and MAC address of the VPort will be inherited by the VNIC. If Vport is not specified, then the EVS controller will generate a system VPort which will have IP address, MAC address, and default SLA properties of EVS, and then the VNIC will be connected to this system VPort.

VNICs when connected to EVS have the following limitiations (in terms of how they can be managed through dladm):

  • They cannot be renamed through dladm rename-link

  • Their properties cannot be changed by using dladm set-linkrop or dladm reset-linkprop

  • They cannot be modified by using dladm modify-vnic

For more information on EVS, VPorts, and tenants, see evsadm(1M) manpage.

The VNIC created is temporary and will be lost upon next reboot. See EXAMPLES section below for an example usage.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the VNIC is temporary. This is a required option.

–T <tenantname>, –-tenant <tenantname>

Specifies the name of the tenant that owns the EVS. If it is not provided, then the default tenant sys-global will be assumed.

–c <evsname>[/<vportname>], –-connect <evsname>[/vportname]

Specifies the name of the EVS to which the VNIC must be connected. If vportname is provided, the the VNIC will be connected to that vport. If a vportname is not provided, then a vport will be automatically generated and assigned to the VNIC.

The act of connecting a VNIC to EVS results in either the VNIC inheriting the properties from EVS or a provided vport.

dladm modify-vnic [–t] [–R root-dir] [–l link] [–m value | auto | {factory [–n slot-identifier]} | {vrrp –A {inet | inet6} –V vrid} | {random [–r prefix]}] [–v vlan-id] {vnic-link,[vnic-link ,...] | –L source-link}

Modifies the underlying link and/or the MAC address/VLAN-ID of the specified VNIC link(s). The VNIC link(s) can be specified as a comma-delimited list or as –L source-link to indicate “all VNICs on source-link”.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the VNIC modification is temporary.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

–l link, –link =link

Specifies the link to which to move the VNIC(s). link can be of any link type supported by create-vnic. link must be different from the link the VNIC(s) are currently using. If the VNIC(s) are using a factory MAC address and –m is not specified, a new MAC address will be allocated on the target link, using the –m auto scheme, and assigned to the VNIC(s).

–m value | keyword, –-mac-address=value | keyword

This option only applies to Ethernet VNICs.

See create-vnic, above, for supported options. If multiple VNICs are specified, only the auto, random , and factory (without –n) address assignment schemes will be supported.

dladm delete-vnic [–t] [–R root-dir] vnic-link

Deletes the specified VNIC.

–t, ––temporary

Specifies that the deletion is temporary. Temporary deletions last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – –root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

dladm show-vnic [–P | {–z zone[,..]}] [[–p] –o field[,..]] [–l link] [vnic-link]
show-vnic [–Zmv] [–l link] [vnic-link]

Show VNIC configuration information for all VNICs, all VNICs on a link, or only the specified vnic-link.

–o field[,...] , –-output=field[,...]

A case-insensitive, comma-separated list of output fields to display. The field name must be one of the fields listed below, or the special value all to display all fields. By default (without – o), show-vnic displays all fields.

LINK

The name of the VNIC.

OVER

The name of the physical link over which this VNIC is configured.

SPEED

The maximum speed of the VNIC, in megabits per second.

MACADDRESS

MAC address of the VNIC.

For IPoIB VNICs, by default (without –o), first five bytes of the mac address are shown, and ".." is shown in the sixth byte position. To show the full mac address use the –o option.

MACADDRESSES

If the VNIC is associated with more than one MAC addresses then this column will display all the MAC addresses of a VNIC.

For IPoIB VNICs, by default (without –o), first five bytes of the mac address are shown, and ".." is shown in the sixth byte position. To show the full mac address use the –o option.

MACADDRTYPE

MAC address type of the VNIC. dladm distinguishes among the following MAC address types:

random

A random address assigned to the VNIC.

factory

A factory MAC address used by the VNIC.

MACADDRTYPES

If the VNIC is associated with more than one MAC addresses then this column will display the MAC address type for each of the MAC address.

VID

The VLAN ID associated with the VNIC.

SVID

The Secondary VLAN ID associated with the VNIC.

PVLAN-TYPE

The PVLAN type associated with the VNIC.

VIDS

If the VNIC is associated with more than one VLAN ID, then this column will display all the VLAN IDs.

EVS

Name of the EVS to which the VNIC is connected to.

VPORT

Name of the vport to which the VNIC is connected to and inherits the properties from.

TENANT

Name of the tenant that owns the EVS.

PKEY

IB partition key associated with the VNIC. Applicable only to IPoIB datalinks.

IDS

Shows VIDS for ethernet datalinks and PKEY for IPoIB datalinks in the format "VID:<value>" and "PKEY:<value>" respectively.

See the create-vnic section above for more information on EVS, VPORT, and TENANT.

–p, –-parseable

Display using a stable machine-parseable format. The –o option is required with –p. See “Parseable Output Format”, below.

–P, –-persistent

Display the persistent VNIC configuration.

–l link, ––link =link

Display information for all VNICs on the named link.

–Z

Display ZONE column in the output.

–V

Display SR-IOV information for a VNIC. The output shows:

LINK

The name of the VNIC.

VF_ASSIGNED

The name of the VF device instance currently assigned to the VNIC.

–z zone[,...]

See description of –z option under dladm show-link, above.

–c

Display the EVS information for the given vnic. This is a shortcut for the following fields: LINK, TENANT, EVS, VPORT, OVER, MACADDRESS, VIDS.

See the create-vnic section above for more information.

–m

Display all MAC addresses, MAC address types and VLAN IDs associated with the VNIC.

–v

Display all VLAN information associated with the VNIC.

dladm create-part [–t] [–f] [–R root-dir] – l ib-link [–p prop =value[,..]] –P pkey part-link

Create an IP-over-IB link with the name part-link over the specified link. This subcommand is supported only on InfiniBand physical links. The part-link can be specified as zonename/linkname, which will create the partition link in the given zone's namespace.

–f, –-force

Forces the creation of the partition link even if pkey is absent on the port, the multicast group is absent, or the port is down.

–l ib-link, – -link=ib-link

IP-over-IB physical link name.

–P, –-pkey=pkey

Partition key to be used for creating the partition link. pkey specified is always treated as hexadecimal, whether it has the 0x prefix or not.

–p prop= value[,..]
–-prop prop= value[,..]

A comma-separated list of properties to set to the specified values. Supported properties are given “General Link Properties” section below.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the partition link creation is temporary. Temporary partition links last until the next reboot. The –t option must be specified if the partition link is to be created in a non-global zone's namespace.

dladm delete-part [–R root-dir] part-link

Delete the specified partition link.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the partition link deletion is temporary. Temporary deletion last until the next reboot.

dladm show-part [–pP] [–l ib-link] [–o field[,...]] [part-link]

Displays IB partition link information for all partition links, for all partitions on ib-link, or for only the specified part-link.

–l ib-link, – -link=ib-link

Display information for all the partitions on the named link.

–o field[,...]

A case-insensitive, comma-separated list of output fields to display. The field name must be one of the fields listed below, or the special value all to display all fields. By default (without – o), show-part displays all fields.

LINK

The name of the partition link.

PKEY

Pkey associated with the partition link.

OVER

The name of the physical link over which this partition link is created.

STATE

Current state of the partition link. Possible values are up, down, or unknown.

FLAGS

A set of state flags used for creating the partition link. Possible values are:

f

Partition was created forcibly (without checking whether creating a partition were possible).

t

Partition link is temporary, lasting only until the next reboot.

–P, –-persistent

Display the persistent IB partition link configuration.

–p, –-parseable

Display using a stable machine-parseable format. The –o option is required with –p. See “Parseable Output Format”, below.

dladm show-ib [–pP] [–o field[,...]] [ib-link ]

Display IB physical link information on all or the specified IB links.

–o field[,...]

A case-insensitive, comma-separated list of output fields to display. The field name must be one of the fields listed below, or the special value all to display all fields. By default (without –o), show-ib displays all fields except HCA, GWID and GWFLAGS.

LINK

The name of the physical link.

HCA

Infiniband Host Channel Adapter (HCA) name as managed by the ibadm(1M) utility.

HCAGUID

Globally unique identifier of the HCA.

PORTGUID

Globally unique identifier of the port. If the PORTGUID is not set, it is shown as unknown. For IB SR-IOV virtual adapters, the PORTGUID is set when the link is up.

PORT

Port number.

STATE

Current state of the physical link. Possible values are up, down, or unknown.

GWNAME

The configured system name of the IB-Ethernet gateway switch that is discovered from this IB physical link.

GWPORT

The name of the connector associated with the gateway ethernet port.

GWID

The identifier for the gateway instance associated with the displayed gateway ethernet port. The value is expected to be unique even if multiple gateway switches share the same InfiniBand fabric. The value of the gateway instance identifier ranges from 0 to 1023.

GWFLAGS

A set of flags associated with the discovered gateway. Possible flags are:

a

The gateway has indicated its availability for logins from this IB port in its advertisement.

H

The gateway allows host-administered VNICs from this IB port.

n

The gateway has at least one macaddress assigned for the EoIB datalink from this IB port.

PKEYS

Pkeys available on the port associated with the IP-over-IB link specified in the LINK field.

–P, –-persistent

Display the persistent IB physical link configuration.

–p, –-parseable

Display using a stable machine-parseable format. The –o option is required with –p. See “Parseable Output Format”, below.

dladm create-eoib [–t] [–R root-dir] –l ib-link –g gw-system-name – c gw-eth-port eoib-link

Create an EoIB link with the name eoib-link over the specified link. This subcommand is supported only on InfiniBand physical links.

–t, –—temporary

Specifies that the EoIB link creation is temporary. Temporary links will last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See "Options" above.

–l ib-link,– -link=ib-link

InfiniBand physical link name.

–g gw-system-name

Specifies the system name of the IB-Ethernet gateway switch.

–c gw-eth-port

Specifies the name of the connector associated with the gateway switch's ethernet port.

dladm delete-eoib [–t] [–R root-dir] eoib-link

Delete the specified EoIB link.

–t, –—temporary

Specifies that the EoIB link creation is temporary. Temporary links will last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See "Options" above.

dladm show-eoib [–PZ] [–g gw-system-name] [–l ib-link] [[–p] –o field [,...]] [–z zone[,...]] [eoib-link]

Displays information about all the EoIB datalinks on the system, EoIB datalinks over a specific ib-link and/or a gw-system-name, or information about a specific EoIB datalink.

–P, –-persistent

Display the persistent EoIB link configuration.

–Z

Display ZONE column in the output.

–g gw-system-name

Display information about EoIB datalinks bound to ethernet ports on the specified gateway.

–l ib-link

Display information about EoIB datalinks built over the specified IB link.

–o field[,...]

A case-insensitive, comma-separated list of output fields to display. The field name must be one of the fields listed below, or the special value all to display all fields. By default (without –o option) show-eoib displays all fields.

LINK

The name of the EoIB datalink.

GWNAME

The configured system name of the IB-Ethernet gateway switch. For persistent links, if the gateway system name is unknown (because the link is being migrated from the old administration model) and if the gateway corresponding to the GWID of the link is not discovered yet, the value is shown as ?.

GWPORT

The name of the connector associated with the gateway ethernet port. For persistent links, if the gateway system name is unknown (because the link is being migrated from the old model of administration) and if the gateway corresponding to the GWID of the link is not discovered yet, the value is shown as ?.

GWID

The identifier for the gateway instance associated with the displayed gateway ethernet port. The value is expected to be unique even if multiple gateway switches share the same InfiniBand fabric. The value of the gateway instance identifier ranges from 0 to 1023. If the gateway has not been discovered yet, the value is shown as --.

SPEED

The maximum speed of the link, in megabits per second.

MACADDRESS

MAC address assigned for the EoIB link on the gateway. If the underlying connection to the gateway has not been established yet, the macaddress is shown as all zeros.

OVER

The name of the IB physical link over which this EoIB datalink is created.

FLAGS

A set of flags associated with the EoIB link. In addition to the flags listed earlier under show-ib description, two additional flag values are possible:

D

The ethernet port associated with the link is currently DOWN.

U

The ethernet port associated with the link is currently UP.

–p, –-parseable

Display using a stable machine-parseable format. The –o option is required with –p. See "Parseable Output Format" below.

dladm create-etherstub [–t] [–R root-dir] etherstub

Create an etherstub with the specified name.

–t, ––temporary

Specifies that the etherstub is temporary. Temporary etherstubs do not persist across reboots.

–R root-dir, – –root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

VNICs can be created on top of etherstubs instead of physical NICs. As with physical NICs, such a creation causes the stack to implicitly create a virtual switch between the VNICs created on top of the same etherstub.

dladm delete-etherstub [– t] [–R root-dir] etherstub

Delete the specified etherstub.

–t, ––temporary

Specifies that the deletion is temporary. Temporary deletions last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – –root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

dladm show-etherstub [–Z] [–z zone[,...]] [etherstub ]

Show all configured etherstubs by default, or the specified etherstub if etherstub is specified.

–Z

Display ZONE column in the output.

–z zone[,...]

See description of –z option under dladm show-link, above.

dladm create-iptun [–t] [–R root-dir] –T type [–a {local|remote}= addr,...] iptun-link

Create an IP tunnel link named iptun-link. Such links can additionally be protected with IPsec using ipsecconf(1M).

An IP tunnel is conceptually comprised of two parts: a virtual link between two or more IP nodes, and an IP interface above this link that allows the system to transmit and receive IP packets encapsulated by the underlying link. This subcommand creates a virtual link. The ipadm(1M) command is used to configure IP interfaces above the link.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the IP tunnel link is temporary. Temporary tunnels last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

–T type, –-tunnel-type =type

Specifies the type of tunnel to be created. The type must be one of the following:

ipv4

A point-to-point, IP-over-IP tunnel between two IPv4 nodes. This type of tunnel requires IPv4 source and destination addresses to function. IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces can be plumbed above such a tunnel to create IPv4-over-IPv4 and IPv6-over-IPv4 tunneling configurations.

ipv6

A point-to-point, IP-over-IP tunnel between two IPv6 nodes as defined in IETF RFC 2473. This type of tunnel requires IPv6 source and destination addresses to function. IPv4 and IPv6 interfaces can be plumbed above such a tunnel to create IPv4-over-IPv6 and IPv6-over-IPv6 tunneling configurations.

6to4

A 6to4, point-to-multipoint tunnel as defined in IETF RFC 3056. This type of tunnel requires an IPv4 source address to function. An IPv6 interface is plumbed on such a tunnel link to configure a 6to4 router.

–a {local|remote}= addr,...
–-address {local| remote}=addr,...

Literal IP addresses or hostnames corresponding to the local or remote tunnel addresses. Either local or remote can be specified individually, or both can be specified separated by a comma (for example, –a local=laddr,remote= raddr).

dladm modify-iptun [–t] [–R root-dir] –a { local|remote}=addr,... iptun-link

Modify the parameters of the specified IP tunnel.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the modification is temporary. Temporary modifications last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

–a {local| remote}=addr,...
–-address {local|remote}=addr,...

Specify new local or remote addresses for the tunnel link. See create-iptun for a description.

dladm delete-iptun [–t] [–R root-dir] iptun-link

Delete the specified IP tunnel link.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the deletion is temporary. Temporary deletions last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See “Options,” above.

dladm show-iptun [–PZ] [[–p] –o field[,...]] [–z zone[,...]] [iptun-link ]

Show IP tunnel link configuration for a single IP tunnel or all IP tunnels.

–P, –-persistent

Display the persistent IP tunnel configuration.

–p, –-parseable

Display using a stable machine-parseable format. The -o option is required with -p. See “Parseable Output Format”, below.

–o field[,...], – -output=field[,...]

A case-insensitive, comma-separated list of output fields to display. The field name must be one of the fields listed below, or the special value all, to display all fields. By default (without – o), show-iptun displays all fields.

LINK

The name of the IP tunnel link.

TYPE

Type of tunnel as specified by the –T option of create-iptun.

FLAGS

A set of flags associated with the IP tunnel link. Possible flags are:

s

The IP tunnel link is protected by IPsec policy. To display the IPsec policy associated with the tunnel link, enter:

# ipsecconf -ln -i tunnel-link

See ipsecconf(1M) for more details on how to configure IPsec policy.

i

The IP tunnel link was implicitly created with ipadm(1M), and will be automatically deleted when it is no longer referenced (that is, when the last IP interface over the tunnel is removed). See ipadm(1M) for details on implicit tunnel creation.

LOCAL

The local tunnel address.

REMOTE

The remote tunnel address.

–Z

Display ZONE column in the output.

–z zone[,...]

See description of –z option under dladm show-link, above.

dladm create-vxlan [–t] [–R root-dir] –p vni=<vxlan id>[,prop=value [,...] ] vxlan-link

Creates a VXLAN link called vxlan-link. A VXLAN link is a virtual link that is created over an IP interface, which will be used for receiving and transmitting VXLAN packets.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the modification is temporary. Temporary modifications last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See "Options," above.

–p prop= value[,...]

The properties of the VXLAN link to be created. See "General Link Properties" for VXLAN related properties.

dladm delete-vxlan [–t] [–R root-dir] vxlan-link

Deletes the specified VXLAN link.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the modification is temporary. Temporary modifications last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, – -root-dir=root-dir

See "Options," above.

dladm show-vxlan [–P] [[–p] –o field[,...]] [vxlan-link]

Displays VXLAN configuration for all VXLAN links or for the specified VXLAN link.

The show-vxlan subcommand accepts the following options:

–P, –-persistent

Displays the persistent IP tunnel configuration.

–p, –-parseable

Displays using a stable machine-parseable format. The –o option is required with –p option. See "Parseable Output Format", below.

–o field[,...], – -output=field[,...]

A case-insensitive, comma-separated list of output fields to display. The field name must be one of the fields listed below, or the special value all, to display all fields. For each VXLAN link, the following fields can be displayed:

LINK

The name of the VXLAN link.

ADDR

The address of the IP interface associated with the VXLAN link.

VNI

The VXLAN segment number that the VXLAN link belongs to.

MGROUP

The multicast group associated with the VXLAN link.

dladm create-cap [–t] [–R root-dir] cap-link

Creates a capture datalink with name cap-link. The cap-link must be unique in given zone namespace, where dladm command is running.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the capture datalink is temporary. Temporary capture last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, –-root-dir=root-dir

See "Options" above.

dladm delete-cap [–t] [–R root-dir] cap-link

Deletes the specified capture datalink.

–t, –-temporary

Specifies that the deletion is temporary. Temporary deletions last until the next reboot.

–R root-dir, –-root-dir=root-dir

See "Options" above.

dladm show-cap [–P] [[–p] –o <field>,...] [cap-link]

Shows all/individual cap-link capture interface(s) bound to the zone, where dladm command is running.

–P, –-persistent

Show persistent datalink configuration.

–p, –-parseable

Displays using a stable machine-parseable format. The –o option is required with –p option. See "Parseable Output Format" below.

-o field[,...], --output=field[,...]

A case-insensitive, comma-separated list of output fields to display. The field name must be one of the fields listed below, or the special value all, to display all fields. For each capture link, the following fields can be displayed:

LINK

The name of the capture link.

ZONE

The current zone of the datalink.

TYPE

Datalink type, currently pflog link type is the only type supported.

MTU

Link mtu.

help [subcommand-name]

Displays all the supported dladm subcommands or usage for a given subcommand. If you invoke help for a specific subcommand, the command syntax is displayed, along with an example. Using dladm help without any argument displays all of the subcommands.

Parseable Output Format

Many dladm subcommands have an option that displays output in a machine-parseable format. The output format is one or more lines of colon (:) delimited fields. The fields displayed are specific to the subcommand used and are listed under the entry for the –o option for a given subcommand. Output includes only those fields requested by means of the –o option, in the order requested.

When you request multiple fields, any literal colon characters are escaped by a backslash (\) before being output. Similarly, literal backslash characters will also be escaped (\\). This escape format is parseable by using shell read(1) functions with the environment variable IFS=: (see EXAMPLES, below). Note that escaping is not done when you request only a single field.

General Link Properties

The following general link properties are supported:

addr

Applicable only for VXLAN links. This property specifies the IP address, IPv4 or IPv6, that hosts a VXLAN link. A prefixlen may be specified as part of the IPv4 or IPv6 address. A hostname may be provided instead of an IP address. If a hostname is provided, its numeric value is obtained from the entry in /etc/hosts or the resolver specified for hosts or ipnodes in nsswitch.conf(4). As IP addresses are created before naming services have been brought online during boot process, it is important that any hostname used be included in /etc/hosts. This property cannot be specified if the VXLAN link is also configured with interface property. This property can be set only when creating a VXLAN link and cannot be modified thereafter. This property may change in the future.

autopush

Specifies the set of STREAMS modules to push on the stream associated with a link when its DLPI device is opened. It is a space-delimited list of modules.

The optional special character sequence [anchor] indicates that a STREAMS anchor should be placed on the stream at the module previously specified in the list. It is an error to specify more than one anchor or to have an anchor first in the list.

The autopush property is preferred over the more general autopush(1M) command.

cos

The 802.1p priority associated with the link. This property, when set, indicates the 802.1p priority on outbound packets on the link. The values range from 0 to 7. When this property is set, all the packets outbound on the link will have a VLAN tag with the priority field set to the property value. When this property is set on a physical NIC, only traffic for the primary client on that physical NIC will have priority set and not any other datalinks on the NIC. This property is only valid on Ethernet data link. The default cos is 0 for VLAN data links or when the underlying device registers DCB capabilities, otherwise the default is not to add a VLAN tag.

cpus

Bind the processing of packets for a given data link to a processor or a set of processors. The value can be a comma-separated list of one or more processor ids or a range of ids. If the list consists of more than one processor, the processing will spread out to all the processors. Connection to processor affinity and packet ordering for any individual connection will be maintained.

The processor or set of processors are not exclusively reserved for the link. Only the kernel threads and interrupts associated with processing of the link are bound to the processor or the set of processors specified. In case it is desired that processors be dedicated to the link, psrset(1M) can be used to create a processor set and then specifying the processors from the processor set to bind the link to.

If the link was already bound to processor or set of processors due to a previous operation, the binding will be removed and the new set of processors will be used instead.

The default is no CPU binding, which is to say that the processing of packets is not bound to any specific processor or processor set.

Specification of the cpus property is not allowed on links with a pool link property.

The effective value of cpus property displays the list of CPUs used for packet processing on the named data link. If the cpus property has been set, the effective value will be the same as the set value. If the pool property has been set, effective value will be selected from the pool designated by the administrator. If neither the pool nor cpus property is set, the system will select the effective value for cpus property.

etsbw-lcl

This indicates the ETS bandwidth configured on the TX side for a link. This property can be configured on a data link only if the underlying physical NIC registers DCB capability and supports ETS. The value is a percentage of the physical NIC's bandwidth and the sum of values of this property over all links on a physical NIC cannot exceed 100. Aggregation of physical NIC that register DCB capabilities is not supported currently, hence this property cannot be set on aggregations. The effective value for this property could be the etsbw-lcl or etsbw-lcl-advice depending on LLDP negotiations.

etsbw-lcl-advice

This indicates the ETS bandwidth (as a percentage) recommended by the remote end for this link. The value is obtained by means of LLDP.

etsbw-rmt

This indicates the ETS bandwidth (in percentage) that is on the remote end for this link. The value is obtained by means of LLDP.

etsbw-rmt-advice

This indicates the ETS bandwidth (as a percentage) recommended to the remote end for this link. This value is used by LLDP.

interface

Applicable only for VXLAN links. This property specifies the underlying IP interface for a VXLAN link. The VXLAN will be created using an IP address that is available on the specified interface. By default an IPv4 address will be selected for the VXLAN link which can be changed using the ipvers property. This property can be set only when creating a VXLAN link and cannot be modified thereafter. This property may change in the future.

ipvers

Applicable only to VXLAN datalinks. This property indicates whether an IPv4 or IPv6 address should be selected on an IP interface, specified using interface property, for a VXLAN link. This property can be set only when creating a VXLAN link and cannot be modified thereafter. This property may change in the future.

rxfanout

Allows you to specify the number of receive-side fanout threads.

Traffic received on a receive ring can be fanned out across multiple threads and processed in parallel. This is particularly useful when the system has large number of CPUs. This property is a count for the number of receive-side fanout threads for a particular datalink. Note that this property lets an administrator specify the desired rxfanout. However, based on the number of available CPUs and hardware RX rings, the system might choose a different (smaller or even higher) value for fanout. The number of CPUs is the upper bound on the receive side fanout while the number of rxrings is the lower bound. Thus, the actual receive-side fanout count can have a value different from the one set by the user.

learn_limit

Limits the number of new or changed MAC sources to be learned over a bridge link. When the number exceeds this value, learning on that link is temporarily disabled. Only non-VLAN, non-VNIC type links have this property.

The default value is 1000. Valid values are greater or equal to 0.

learn_decay

Specifies the decay rate for source changes limited by learn_limit . This number is subtracted from the counter for a bridge link every 5 seconds. Only non-VLAN, non-VNIC type links have this property.

The default value is 200. Valid values are greater or equal to 0.

lro

Specifies the user's disposition of turning LRO on or off or using system default LRO value on a data link.

Valid values are off, on, or auto. The default value is auto. The value auto is set to off for physical NICs while it inherits the lower link's lro disposition for virtual NICs.

mac-address

Sets the primary MAC address for the data link. When set, changes the primary MAC address used by all current and future MAC clients of the underlying data link.


Note - The system might not turn LRO on if it determines it is unsafe to do so. For instance, if IP is forwarding traffic using a data link, then the system would deem it unsafe to turn on LRO for that data link. So the effective value will be different from the configured value in such cases.
maxbw

Sets the full duplex bandwidth for the link. The bandwidth is specified as an integer with one of the scale suffixes (K, M, or G for Kbps, Mbps, and Gbps). If no units are specified, the input value will be read as Mbps. The default is no bandwidth limit.

bwshare

Bandwidth share for a VNIC is the minimum share of the bandwidth the VNIC will get when there is competition from other VNICs on the same data link. Note that the bandwidth is allocated among all the active VNICs. The amount of allocation is proportional to their share. For example,

# dladm set-linkprop -p bwshare=40 vnic1
# dladm set-linkprop -p bwshare=10 vnic2

Assuming a 1Gbps link and assuming these two are the only VNICs, vnic1 can have up to 800 Mbps (1Gbps * 40/(40+10)) and vnic2 can have up to 200 Mbps (1Gbps * 10/(40+10)).

The above example assumes both the VNICs have traffic to consume their share of the bandwidth. However, if vnic1 consumes only 100 Mbps, then vnic2 can go up to 900 Mbps. The goal with bandwidth shares is no wasted bandwidth when there is a VNIC that can use it while assuring the allocated share when there is competition from other VNICs.

This property is currently supported only on certain NICs. dladm show-linkprop -H -p bwshare command can be used to determine if bwshare property is supported on a given link. The value can range from 1 to 100. The value is a relative share value and does not indicate a percentage of the bandwidth. The effective value is printed as a percentage of the physical link bandwidth. This is the minimum % of the bandwidth assured to the VNIC when there is competition. The effective value can keep changing depending on the other VNICs on the link.

mgroup

Applicable only to VXLAN datalinks. This property indicates the multicast group a VXLAN link subscribes to. The VXLAN link will use this address to discover other VXLAN links on the same VXLAN segment. If this property is not set, the default all-host address will be used by the VXLAN link. This property can be set only when creating a VXLAN link and cannot be modified thereafter. This property may change in the future.

pool

Bind the processing of packets for a given data link to a pool of processors defined and administered by poolcfg(1M) and pooladm(1M). The binding of processes is similar to what occurs with the cpus link property, except that the list of CPUs is not explicit and is instead maintained by the pools facility.

If pools are enabled, and no pool is specified for the link, pool_default will be used for packet processing.

For zones with ip-type=exclusive, if a pool is specified through a pool zone property or dedicated-cpus allocation, that pool will also be used for all data links associated with the zone.

Specification of the pool property is not allowed on links with a cpus link property.

If the pools facility has been enabled, and if the administrator has not assigned a pool to a data link, then the effective value of pool will be pool_default.

If the pools facility is disabled, there is no effective pool and the value will be empty.

priority

Sets the relative priority for the link. The value can be given as one of the tokens high, medium, or low. The default is medium. This priority is not reflected in any protocol priority fields on the wire, but used for packet processing scheduling within the system. A high priority link offers a better latency depending on the availability of system resources. Setting this property can cause CPU utilization to go up for some workloads.

rxringsavail

A read-only property that specifies the number of rings available on the receive side.

rxrings

Specifies the number of receive rings side for the MAC client. A value of sw means this MAC client should not be assigned any RX ring and will be software-based. A value of hw means this MAC client can get one RX ring, if available, or will be software-based. A non-zero value means reserve that many rings for this MAC client, if available, and fail if not. If this property is not specified, the MAC client can get one RX ring, if available, or will be software-based.

rxhwclntavail

A read-only property that specifies the number of additional RX hardware-based MAC clients that can be created.

txringsavail

A read-only property that specifies the number of rings available on the transmit side.

txrings

Specifies the number of transmit rings for the MAC client. A value of sw means this MAC client should not be assigned any TX ring. A value of hw means this MAC client can get one TX ring, if available, or will be software-based. A non-zero value means reserve that many rings for this MAC client, if available, and fail if not. If this property is not specified, the MAC client can get one TX ring, if available, or will be software-based.

txhwclntavail

A read-only property that specifics the number of additional TX hardware-based MAC clients that can be created.

stp

Enables or disables Spanning Tree Protocol on a bridge link. Setting this value to 0 disables Spanning Tree, and puts the link into forwarding mode with BPDU guarding enabled. This mode is appropriate for point-to-point links connected only to end nodes. Only non-VLAN, non-VNIC type links have this property. The default value is 1, to enable STP.

forward

Enables or disables forwarding for a VLAN. Setting this value to 0 disables bridge forwarding for a VLAN link. Disabling bridge forwarding removes that VLAN from the “allowed set” for the bridge. The default value is 1, to enable bridge forwarding for configured VLANs.

default_tag

Sets the default VLAN ID that is assumed for untagged packets sent to and received from this link. Only non-VLAN, non-VNIC type links have this property. Setting this value to 0 disables the bridge forwarding of untagged packets to and from the port. The default value is VLAN ID 1. Valid values values are from 0 to 4094. The default VLAN ID is also referred to as the Port VLAN Identifier (PVID).

You cannot create a tagged VLAN or VLAN-tagged VNIC link with a VLAN ID that matches the default VLAN value of the underlying link. All untagged packets on the link are already associated with the default VLAN (PVID). To successfully create a tagged VLAN or VLAN-tagged VNIC link with VLAN ID equal to the default VLAN value, you must first change the default_tag property of the underlying link to a different VLAN value.

When default_tag=0, all untagged packets on the link are no longer associated with any VLAN. As a result, you can create a VLAN link with any VLAN ID from 1 to 4094. Note that any received packets that are erroneously tagged with the PVID at an end-point might be dropped. This situation occurs if all the end-points on a given link do not agree on the PVID. All end-points on a link must use the same PVID and must not tag traffic with the PVID.

stp_priority

Sets the STP and RSTP Port Priority value, which is used to determine the preferred root port on a bridge. Lower numerical values are higher priority. The default value is 128. Valid values range from 0 to 255.

stp_cost

Sets the STP and RSTP cost for using the link. The default value is auto, which sets the cost based on link speed, using 100 for 10Mbps, 19 for 100Mbps, 4 for 1Gbps, and 2 for 10Gbps. Valid values range from 1 to 65535.

stp_edge

Enables or disables bridge edge port detection. If set to 0 (false), the system assumes that the port is connected to other bridges even if no bridge PDUs of any type are seen. The default value is 1, which detects edge ports automatically.

stp_p2p

Sets bridge point-to-point operation mode. Possible values are true, false, and auto. When set to auto, point-to-point connections are automatically discovered. When set to true, the port mode is forced to use point-to-point. When set to false, the port mode is forced to use normal multipoint mode. The default value is auto.

stp_mcheck

Triggers the system to run the RSTP Force BPDU Migration Check procedure on this link. The procedure is triggered by setting the property value to 1. The property is automatically reset back to 0. This value cannot be set unless the following are true:

  • The link is bridged

  • The bridge is protected by Spanning Tree

  • The bridge force-protocol value is at least 2 (RSTP)

The default value is 0.

protection

Enables one or more types of link protection. Valid values are:

mac-nospoof

MAC address anti-spoof. An outbound packet's source MAC address must match the link's configured MAC address. Non-matching packets will be dropped. If the link belongs to a zone, turning mac-nospoof on will prevent the zone's owner from modifying the link's MAC address.

ip-nospoof

IP address anti-spoof. This protection type works in conjunction with the link property allowed-ips.

allowed-ips is a list containing IP (IPv4 or IPv6) addresses. This list is empty by default. Addresses that are implicitly in this list are: the link local IPv6 address conforming to RFC 2464 (derived from the link's MAC address); IPv4/IPv6 addresses learned from DHCP replies; the unspecified (all-zeros) IPv4/IPv6 address.

An outbound IP packet can pass if its source address is in allowed-ips .

An outbound ARP packet can pass if its sender protocol address is in allowed-ips.

When a datalink has been protected by setting allowed-ips to a set of one or more IP addresses, any attempts to configure IP addresses that are not in this set will fail with an EPERM error being returned to the user. Moreover, the interface may not be used for forwarding IP packets, and attempts to set the ipadm(1M) forwarding property on the interface will encounter an EPERM error.

dhcp-nospoof

DHCP client ID (DUID for DHCPv6) and hardware address anti-spoof. This protection type works in conjunction with the link property allowed-dhcp-cids .

Items in the allowed-dhcp-cids list should be formatted in the same way as the CLIENT_ID field in the /etc/default/dhcpagent file. The only difference is that . (period) should be used in place of , (comma) when specifying DUIDs. See dhcpagent(1M) for details.

An outbound DHCP (v4/v6) packet can pass only if these conditions are satisfied:

  • If allowed-dhcp-cids is not configured and the packet type is:

    • DHCPv4, the client ID field must match the configured MAC address.

    • DHCPv6, the DUID must be of type 1 or 3 and the link layer address part of the DUID must match the configured MAC address.

  • If allowed-dhcp-cids is configured and the packet type is:

    • DHCPv4, the client ID field must match one of the IDs on this list or the configured MAC address.

    • DHCPv6, the DUID field must match one of the IDs on this list or, the DUID must be of type 1 or 3 and the link layer address part of the DUID matches the configured MAC address.

restricted

This protection restricts outgoing packet types to just IPv4, IPv6, and ARP.

vni

Applicable only to VXLAN datalinks. This property, with values ranging between 0 and 16777215, that specifies the VXLAN segment the link belongs to. This property is mandatory when creating a VXLAN link and cannot be modified thereafter. This property may change in the future.

vsi-mgrid

An IPv6 address.

When the VDP service is enabled on a VNIC, properties of the VNIC are exchanged with the bridge using a 3-byte VSI Type ID and 1-byte VSI Version. A VSI Manager maintains the mapping between the {VSI Type ID-VSI Version} and the set of properties. The {VSI Manager ID, VSI Type id, VSI Version} tuple identifies a specific set of properties.

On a VNIC, the vsi-mgrid can be explicitly assigned. If the vsi-mgrid is not explicitly assigned, the vsi-mgrid is set to the vsi-mgrid value of the underlying link.

On physical link, vsi-mgrid specifies the default vsi-manageid for all the VNICs over it. The default value of the vsi-mgrid on a physical link is 0.

The default VSI Manager ID on a physical link is associated with the Oracle VSI Manager (oracle_v1). The Oracle VSI Manager is defined as a 3-byte encoding using the following link properties:

Bits            Properties
--------------------------------------------------
0-4             Link Bandwidth Limit
                00000-10100 :   0-100% of link speed
                                in increments of 5%
                rest        :   reserved

                5-7             Link Speed
                                000 - Unknown
                                001 - 10 Mbps
                                010 - 100 Mbps
                                011 - 1 Gbps
                                100 - 10 Gbps
                                101 - 40 Gbps
                                110 - 100 Gbps
                                111 - Reserved

                8-12            Reserved

                13-15           Traffic Class (0-7)

                16-17           Link MTU
                                00 - 1500 bytes
                                01 - 9000 bytes
                                10 - Custom
                                11 - Reserved


                18-23           Reserved
vsi-mgrid-enc

The encoding associated with the physical link's vsi-mgrid . Supported values include oracle_v1 and none . If this property is set to none, the vsi-typeid and vsi-vers are not automatically generated over this link for VNICs that do not have their vsi-mgrid explicitly set.

vsi-typeid

A 3-byte value that is used to determine the properties associated with a VNIC. The vsi-typeid is used along with the vsi-vers and vsi-mgrid to obtain the actual properties associated with the VNIC. When the vsi-mgrid is not explicitly on the VNIC, the vsi-typeid is automatically generated using the properties of the VNIC and the above encoding (oracle_v1).

vsi-vers

A 1-byte value that is used to determine the properties associated with a VNIC. The vsi-vers is used along with the vsi-typeid and vsi-mgrid to obtain the actual properties associated with the VNIC. When the vsi-mgrid is not explicitly on the VNIC, the vsi-vers is set to 0.

vswitchmode

This property determines if switching between VNICs or MAC clients over a physical link happens through the virtual switch associated with the link or on the external switch. This property is applicable only to physical and aggregated links. By default switching happens through the virtual switch associated with the link. Valid values include:

local

Switching between MAC clients or VNICs over the link happens internally through the link's virtual switch. This is referred to as Virtual Ethernet Bridge (VEB).

remote

Switching between MAC clients or VNICs over the link happens externally through the external switch. This is referred to as Virtual Ethernet Port Aggregator (VEPA). Setting this value assumes that Reflective Relay is configured on the external switch.

auto

Switching is determined through Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) protocol. This value initiates LLDP exchange with the external switch to enable Reflective Relay. If LLDP successfully enables Reflective Relay on the switch, the effective value is remote (that is, switching happens on the external switch), else it is local (that is, switching happens locally through the link's virtual switch).

pvlan-tagmode

This property determines how the outgoing packets should be tagged. This property applies to physical links. The valid values are:

primary

The outgoing packets will be tagged with the VNIC's Primary VID.

secondary

The outgoing packets will be tagged with the VNIC's Secondary VID. This is the default value.

iov

This property behaves differently depending on whether it is used on a physical link or a VNIC.

Setting this link property on a physical link allows the user to enable/disable SR-IOV mode. The possible values for iov on a physical link are:

auto

Allows the OS decide whether to enable SR-IOV mode on this link. This is the default value.

on

Turns SR-IOV mode on. This will allow the creation of VF VNICS.

off

Turns SR-IOV mode off. This will disable the ability to create VF VNICs.

The user can display the current iov setting by using show-linkprop. The EFFECTIVE column will show the value decided by the OS. The VALUE column will show the user specified value.

This property may also be specified during VNIC creation via the –p option. This option allows the user to choose whether to create a VF VNIC or not. For this case, the possible values for iov are:

inherit

Inherit the EFFECTIVE iov setting from the VNIC's underlying link. For example, if the underlying link has –iov on, specifying inherit during VNIC creation means, allowing the OS allocate a VF if possible; If a VF is not found, create a regular VNIC instead. If the underlying link has iov off, it means a VF will not be allocated.

If –p iov is not specified during create-vnic, this is + the assumed default value.

on

A VF must be allocated for this VNIC. If a VF cannot be found, fail the VNIC creation.

off

Do not allocate a VF for this VNIC. The created VNIC will always be a regular VNIC regardless of the underlying iov setting.

Unlike the physical link case, the VNIC's iov property cannot be modified by set-linkprop. It can only be specified during create-vnic. Displaying this property through show-linkprop is allowed.

zone

Specifies the zone to which the link belongs. This property can be modified only temporarily through dladm, and thus the –t option must be specified. To modify the zone assignment such that it persists across reboots, please use zonecfg(1M). Possible values consist of any exclusive-IP zone currently running on the system. By default, the zone binding is as per zonecfg(1M).

allow-autoconf

Specifies whether a physical link should be automatically configured. This property is only applicable when the system-defined Automatic Network Configuration Profile is active. The default value is 1, meaning that the link will be automatically configured. If the value is set to 0, the link will not be automatically configured.

fw-vers

Applicable only for physical datalinks. A read-only property that specifies the firmware version information for the physical NIC. This property is only shown when explicitly requested through the –p option. The format, meaning, and stability of its value is up to each individual driver and optionally documented in the driver's manual page.

On IPoIB VNICs, only the following link properties are supported: autopush, zone, maxbw, cpus, rxfanout, pool, priority, protection, allowed-ips, and allowed-dhcp-cids.

Wifi Link Properties

The following WiFi link properties are supported. Note that the ability to set a given property to a given value depends on the driver and hardware.

channel

Specifies the channel to use. This property can be modified only by certain WiFi links when in IBSS mode. The default value and allowed range of values varies by regulatory domain.

powermode

Specifies the power management mode of the WiFi link. Possible values are off (disable power management), max (maximum power savings), and fast (performance-sensitive power management). Default is off.

radio

Specifies the radio mode of the WiFi link. Possible values are on or off. Default is on.

speed

Specifies a fixed speed for the WiFi link, in megabits per second. The set of possible values depends on the driver and hardware (but is shown by show-linkprop); common speeds include 1, 2, 11, and 54. By default, there is no fixed speed.

Ethernet Link Properties

The following MII Properties, as documented in ieee802.3(5), are supported in read-only mode:

  • duplex

  • state

  • adv_autoneg_cap

  • adv_40gfdx_cap

  • adv_25gfdx_cap

  • adv_10gfdx_cap

  • adv_1000fdx_cap

  • adv_1000hdx_cap

  • adv_100fdx_cap

  • adv_100hdx_cap

  • adv_10fdx_cap

  • adv_10hdx_cap

Each adv_ property (for example, adv_10fdx_cap) also has a read/write counterpart en_ property (for example, en_10fdx_cap) controlling parameters used at auto-negotiation. In the absence of Power Management, the adv* speed/duplex parameters provide the values that are both negotiated and currently effective in hardware. However, with Power Management enabled, the speed/duplex capabilities currently exposed in hardware might be a subset of the set of bits that were used in initial link parameter negotiation. Thus the MII adv_* parameters are marked read-only, with an additional set of en_* parameters for configuring speed and duplex properties at initial negotiation.

Note that the adv_autoneg_cap does not have an en_autoneg_cap counterpart: the adv_autoneg_cap is a 0/1 switch that turns off/on autonegotiation itself, and therefore cannot be impacted by Power Management.

In addition, the following Ethernet properties are reported:

flowctrl

Establishes flow-control modes that will be advertised by the device. Valid input is one of:

auto

Flow control mode on the device is dynamically determined. To see the actual flow control mode set on the device, check the effective value of flowctrl property.

no

No flow control enabled.

rx

Receive, and act upon incoming pause frames.

tx

Transmit pause frames to the peer when congestion occurs, but ignore received pause frames.

pfc

Transmit pause frames including the priority value of the traffic that should be paused. Receive pause frames, and act upon the traffic whose priority values are specified in the frame.

bi

Bidirectional flow control.

Note that the actual settings for this value are constrained by the capabilities allowed by the device and the link partner. As such the effective value of flowctrl indicates the system chosen value.

gvrp-timeout

Specifies wait period between VID announcement broadcasts, in milliseconds.

mtu

The maximum client SDU (Send Data Unit) supported by the device. Valid range is 68-65536.

ntcs

The number of Traffic Classes supported on the device. A device supporting extensions for DCB (Data Center Bridging) can support multiple traffic classes. This property can be used to determine if the device supports DCB extensions. This is a read-only property.

pfcmap

This property is used to indicate the 802.1p priority values for which PFC (Priority-based flow control) is enabled. This is an 8-bit mask, in which an individual bit signifies whether PFC is enabled for the corresponding priority. For priorities that have PFC enabled, the device will transmit a pause frame for that priority in the event of congestion. This is relevant only if ntcs is greater than zero and effective value of flowctrl is pfc.

The effective value of pfcmap can either be the user configured value or the effective value of pfcmap-rmt depending on LLDP DCBx negotiations.

pfcmap-rmt

This property is used to indicate the PFC configuration of the remote peer, usually an adjacent switch.

ptp

(read-only) This property is used to indicate the availability of PTP hardware assistance in the device.

speed

(read-only) The operating speed of the device, in Mbps.

tagmode

This link property controls the conditions in which 802.1Q VLAN tags will be inserted in packets being transmitted on the link. Two mode values can be assigned to this property:

normal

Insert a VLAN tag in outgoing packets under the following conditions:

  • The packet belongs to a VLAN.

  • The user requested priority tagging.

vlanonly

Insert a VLAN tag only when the outgoing packet belongs to a VLAN. If a tag is being inserted in this mode and the user has also requested a non-zero priority, the priority is honored and included in the VLAN tag.

The default value is vlanonly.

vlan-announce

This property controls automatic VLAN ID announcement. When enabled, it broadcasts the VIDs of any VNICs or VLANs configured on the device. It supports both physical links and aggregations. Possible values are:

off

No VID announcements will be sent.

gvrp

Announcements sent using GVRP protocol, as defined in 802.1D. See gvrp-timeout to configure broadcast frequency.

InfiniBand Link Properties

The following properties are supported only on IB partition object datalinks and IPoIB VNIC datalinks.

linkmode

Sets the link transport service type on an IB partition datalink. The default value is cm. Valid values are:

cm

Connected Mode. This mode uses a default MTU of 65520 and supports a maximum MTU of 65535 bytes. If Connected Mode is not available for a remote node, Unreliable Datagram mode will automatically be used instead.

ud

Unreliable Datagram Mode. This mode uses a default MTU of 2044 and supports a maximum MTU of 4092 bytes.

IP Tunnel Link Properties

The following IP tunnel link properties are supported.

hoplimit

Specifies the IPv4 TTL or IPv6 hop limit for the encapsulating outer IP header of a tunnel link. This property exists for all tunnel types. The default value is 64.

encaplimit

Specifies the IPv6 encapsulation limit for an IPv6 tunnel as defined in RFC 2473. This value is the tunnel nesting limit for a given tunneled packet. The default value is 4. A value of 0 disables the encapsulation limit.

Aggregation Link Properties

The following properties are supported only on DLMP mode aggregations.

probe-enabled

This property controls whether the probe-based failure/recovery detection is enabled for the given aggregation. When disabled, the health detection of the underlying port will be solely relying on the port's link state. Possible values are:

true

Probe-based failure/recovery detection is enabled. This is the default value.

false

Probe-based failure/recovery detection is disabled.

probe-ip

This property is a comma separated list of IP addressed allowed for use as source IP addresses for ICMP probing. IP addresses from this list, if configured (as plumbed primary or as VNICs) will be used for ICMP probing. These IP addresses will continue to carry data traffic like usual. Thus, there is no need to reserve exclusive IP addresses for probing.

Each field in the list consists of "source IP" followed by optional target configuration information. The target information, if specified, can either be the target IP address or the string "rt". If it is the latter, the in.dlmpd daemon will consult the routing table for routes on the same subnet as the specified "source IP" address, and uses the specified next-hop as the target IP address.

If no target is specified, the DLMP probing service will try to discover potential targets IP addresses by sending the ICMP multicast packet.

Regardless the sources of the target IP address (discovered, specified or come from the routing table), the target IP address must be in the same subnetwork as the specified source IP address, or, it will not take effect.

The following forms are accepted. Note that "target" can either be the IP address or the hostname of the target:

<IP address>[/prefixlen ][+<target address>

Explicitly specify the IP address and its prefix length (optional). For example, 10.134.8.0/24+.

<addrobj_name>[+<target address>

Specify the specific addrobj name, which can be seen in the ipadm show-addr output. For example, vnic1/addr1+169.156.0.1.

<interface_name>[+<target address>

Specify a specific interface name. It can be either the name of the aggregation interface itself or any VNIC configured over the aggregation in the global zone. All the IPv4 addresses and IPv6 addresses configured on the specified interface will be used for ICMP probing. Note that to avoid ambiguity between the hostname and the interface name, the interface names will be enclosed by the square bracket. For example, [dlmp1]+.

+[<target>]

When no source IP address is specified, all the IP addresses configured on the aggregation and the VNICs in the global zone will be potential source IP address of ICMP probes.

probe-vlan-id

This link property specifies the VLAN-ID to be used for both ICMP and transitive probing. Valid values are from 0 to 4094. The value 0 indicates that the probes are untagged. The default value is 0.

probe-fdt

This link property defines the failure detection time. It configures the expected failure detection time value in seconds. The default value is 10s.

Examples

Example 1 Display Datalink Configuration

The following command shows the effect of invoking dladm with no arguments.

# dladm
LINK                CLASS     MTU    STATE    OVER
net0                phys      1500   up       --
net1                phys      1500   up       --
net2                phys      1500   unknown  --
net3                phys      1500   up       --
vnic1               vnic      1500   up       net1
vlan1               vlan      1500   up       net1
aggr1               aggr      1500   up       net2 net3
stub1               etherstub 9000   unknown  --
Example 2 Configuring an Aggregation

To configure a data-link over an aggregation of devices bge0 (linkname net0) and bge1 (linkname net1) with key 1, enter the following command:

# dladm create-aggr -l net0 -l net1 1

To configure an IEEE 802.3ad link aggregation of devices e1000g1 (linkname net0) and e1000g2 (linkname net1) with the name aggr1, enter following command:

# dladm create-aggr -l net0 -l net1 aggr1

To configure an Datalink Multipathing (dlmp) link aggregation of devices ixgbe1 (linkame net2) and ixgbe2 (linkname net3) with the name aggr2 enter following command:

# dladm create-aggr -m dlmp -l net2  -l net3 aggr2

To list aggregations, enter following command:

# dladm show-aggr
LINK              MODE    POLICY   ADDRPOLICY           LACPACTIVITY  LACPTIMER
aggr1             trunk   L4       auto                 off           short
aggr2             dlmp    --       --                   --            --
Example 3 Connecting to a WiFi Link

To connect to the most optimal available unsecured network on a system with a single WiFi link (as per the prioritization rules specified for connect-wifi), enter the following command:

# dladm connect-wifi
Example 4 Creating a WiFi Key

To interactively create the WEP key mykey, enter the following command:

# dladm create-secobj -c wep mykey

Alternatively, to non-interactively create the WEP key mykey using the contents of a file:

# umask 077
 # cat >/tmp/mykey.$$ <<EOF
 12345
 EOF
 # dladm create-secobj -c wep -f /tmp/mykey.$$ mykey
 # rm /tmp/mykey.$$
Example 5 Connecting to a Specified Encrypted WiFi Link

To use key mykey to connect to ESSID wlan on link ath0, enter the following command:

# dladm connect-wifi -k mykey -e wlan ath0

Example 6 Changing a Link Property

To set powermode to the value fast on link pcwl0, enter the following command:

# dladm set-linkprop -p powermode=fast pcwl0

Example 7 Connecting to a WPA-Protected WiFi Link

Create a WPA key psk and enter the following command:

# dladm create-secobj -c wpa psk

To then use key psk to connect to ESSID wlan on link ath0, enter the following command:

# dladm connect-wifi -k psk -e wlan ath0
Example 8 Renaming a Link

To rename the bge0 link to mgmt0, enter the following command:

# dladm rename-link bge0 mgmt0
Example 9 Replacing a Network Card

Consider that the bge0 device, whose link was named mgmt0 as shown in the previous example, needs to be replaced with a ce0 device because of a hardware failure. The bge0 NIC is physically removed, and replaced with a new ce0 NIC. To associate the newly added ce0 device with the mgmt0 configuration previously associated with bge0, enter the following command:

# dladm rename-link ce0 mgmt0
Example 10 Removing a Network Card

Suppose that in the previous example, the intent is not to replace the bge0 NIC with another NIC, but rather to remove and not replace the hardware. In that case, the mgmt0 datalink configuration is not slated to be associated with a different physical device as shown in the previous example, but needs to be deleted. Enter the following command to delete the datalink configuration associated with the mgmt0 datalink, whose physical hardware (bge0 in this case) has been removed:

# dladm delete-phys mgmt0
Example 11 Using Parseable Output to Capture a Single Field

The following assignment saves the MTU of link net0 to a variable named mtu.

# mtu=`dladm show-link -p -o mtu net0`
Example 12 Using Parseable Output to Iterate over Links

The following script displays the state of each link on the system.

# dladm show-link -p -o link,state | while IFS=: read link state; do
            print "Link $link is in state $state"
        done

Example 13 Configuring VNICs

Create two VNICs with names hello0 and test1 over a single physical link net0:

# dladm create-vnic -l net0 hello0
# dladm create-vnic -l net0 test1
Example 14 Configuring VNICs and Allocating Bandwidth and Priority

Create two VNICs with names hello0 and test1 over a single physical link net0 and make hello0 a high priority VNIC with a factory-assigned MAC address with a maximum bandwidth of 50 Mbps. Make test1 a low priority VNIC with a random MAC address and a maximum bandwidth of 100Mbps.

# dladm create-vnic -l net0 -m factory -p maxbw=50,priority=high hello0

# dladm create-vnic -l net0 -m random -p maxbw=100M,priority=low test1
Example 15 Configuring a VNIC with a Factory MAC Address

First, list the available factory MAC addresses and choose one of them:

# dladm show-phys -m net0
LINK            SLOT         ADDRESS              INUSE    CLIENT
net0            primary      0:e0:81:27:d4:47     yes      net0
net0            1            8:0:20:fe:4e:a5      no
net0            2            8:0:20:fe:4e:a6      no
net0            3            8:0:20:fe:4e:a7      no

Create a VNIC named hello0 and use slot 1's address:

# dladm create-vnic -l net0 -m factory -n 1 hello0
# dladm show-phys -m net0
LINK            SLOT         ADDRESS              INUSE    CLIENT
net0            primary      0:e0:81:27:d4:47     yes      net0
net0            1            8:0:20:fe:4e:a5      yes      hello0
net0            2            8:0:20:fe:4e:a6      no
net0            3            8:0:20:fe:4e:a7      no
Example 16 Creating a VNIC with User-Specified MAC Address, Binding it to Set of Processors

Create a VNIC with name hello0, with a user specified MAC address, and a processor binding 0, 2, 4-6.

# dladm create-vnic -l net0 -m 8:0:20:fe:4e:b8 -p cpus=0,2,4-6 hello0
Example 17 Creating a Virtual Network Without a Physical NIC

First, create an etherstub with name stub1:

# dladm create-etherstub stub1

Create two VNICs with names hello0 and test1 on the etherstub. This operation implicitly creates a virtual switch connecting hello0 and test1.

# dladm create-vnic -l stub1 hello0
# dladm create-vnic -l stub1 test1
Example 18 Displaying Bridge Information

The following commands use the show-bridge subcommand with no and various options.

# dladm show-bridge
BRIDGE       PROTECT ADDRESS           PRIORITY DESROOT
foo          stp     32768/8:0:20:bf:f 32768    8192/0:d0:0:76:14:38
bar          stp     32768/8:0:20:e5:8 32768    8192/0:d0:0:76:14:38

# dladm show-bridge -l foo
LINK         STATE        UPTIME   DESROOT
hme0         forwarding   117      8192/0:d0:0:76:14:38
qfe1         forwarding   117      8192/0:d0:0:76:14:38

# dladm show-bridge -s foo
BRIDGE       DROPS        FORWARDS
foo          0            302

# dladm show-bridge -ls foo
LINK         DROPS     RECV      XMIT
hme0         0         360832    31797
qfe1         0         322311    356852

# dladm show-bridge -f foo
DEST              AGE     FLAGS  OUTPUT
8:0:20:bc:a7:dc   10.860  --     hme0
8:0:20:bf:f9:69   --      L      hme0
8:0:20:c0:20:26   17.420  --     hme0
8:0:20:e5:86:11   --      L      qfe1
Example 19 Creating an IPv4 Tunnel

The following sequence of commands creates and then displays a persistent IPv4 tunnel link named mytunnel0 between 66.1.2.3 and 192.4.5.6:

# dladm create-iptun -T ipv4 -a local=66.1.2.3,remote=192.4.5.6 mytunnel0

# dladm show-iptun mytunnel0
LINK            TYPE  FLAGS  SOURCE              DESTINATION
mytunnel0       ipv4  --     66.1.2.3            192.4.5.6

A point-to-point IP interface can then be created over this tunnel link:

# ipadm create-ip mytunnel0
# ipadm create-addr -T static -a local=10.1.0.1,remote=10.1.0.2 \

mytunnel0/addr
# ipadm show-addr mytunnel0/addr
ADDROBJ           TYPE     STATE        ADDR
mytunnel0/addr    static   ok           10.1.0.1->10.1.0.2
Example 20 Creating a 6to4 Tunnel

The following command creates a 6to4 tunnel link. The IPv4 address of the 6to4 router is 75.10.11.12.

# dladm create-iptun -T 6to4 -a local=75.10.11.12 sitetunnel0
# dladm show-iptun sitetunnel0
LINK            TYPE  FLAGS  SOURCE              DESTINATION
sitetunnel0     6to4  --     75.10.11.12         --

The following command creates an IPv6 interface on this tunnel:

# ipadm create-ip sitetunnel0
# ipadm show-addr sitetunnel0/_a
ADDROBJ           TYPE     STATE        ADDR
sitetunnel0/_a    static   ok           2002:4b0a:b0c::1/16

Note that the system automatically configures the IPv6 address on the 6to4 IP interface. See ipadm(1M) for a description of how IPv6 addresses are configured on 6to4 tunnel links.

Example 21 Using Link Protection

To enable link protection:

# dladm set-linkprop \
-p protection=mac-nospoof,restricted,ip-nospoof,dhcp-nospoof vnic0

To disable link protection:

# dladm reset-linkprop -p protection vnic0

To modify the allowed-ips list:

# dladm set-linkprop -p allowed-ips=10.0.0.1,10.0.0.2 vnic0

To modify the allowed-dhcp-cids list:

# dladm set-linkprop -p allowed-dhcp-cids=hello vnic0

To display the resulting configuration:

# dladm show-linkprop -p protection,allowed-ips vnic0

LINK  PROPERTY    PERM   VALUE        EFFECTIVE    DEFAULT POSSIBLE
vnic0 protection  rw     mac-nospoof, mac-nospoof, --      mac-nospoof,
                         restricted,  restricted,          restricted,
                         ip-nospoof,  ip-nospoof,          ip-nospoof,
                         dhcp-nospoof dhcp-nospoof         dhcp-nospoof
vnic0 allowed-ips rw     10.0.0.1,    10.0.0.1,    --      --
                         10.0.0.2     10.0.0.2
vnic0 allowed-dhcp-cids rw hello      hello        --      --
Example 22 Creating an IB Partition

The following command creates a partition ffff.ibp0 with partition key 0xffff on the physical link ibp0.

# dladm create-part -P ffff -l ibp0 ffff.ibp0
Example 23 Displaying IB Partition Information

The following command displays IB partition information.

# dladm show-part
LINK         PKEY OVER         STATE    FLAGS
ffff.ibp0    FFFF ibp0         up       ----
Example 24 Displaying IB Data Links Information

The following command displays IB data links information.

# dladm show-ib
LINK     HCAGUID        PORTGUID       PORT STATE  GWNAME GWPORT  PKEYS
net0     3BA000100CD7C  3BA000100CD7D  1    down   --     --      FFFF
net1     3BA000100CD7C  3BA000100CD7E  2    down   --     --      FFFF
net3     5AD0000033634  5AD0000033636  2    up     --     --      FFFF,8001
net2     5AD0000033634  5AD0000033635  1    up     --     --      FFFF,8001
Example 25 Displaying IB HCA mapping

The following command displays IB HCA name as managed by ibadm(1M) that each IB link runs over.

# dladm show-ib -o link,hca,port,hcaguid,portguid,pkeys
LINK     HCA            PORT   HCAGUID        PORTGUID       PKEYS
net0     hermon0        1      3BA000100CD7C  3BA000100CD7D  FFFF,8001
net1     hermon0        2      3BA000100CD7C  3BA000100CD7E  FFFF,8001
net3     hermon0.vhca0  2      5AD0000033634  5AD0000033636  FFFF,8001
net2     hermon0.vhca1  1      5AD0000033634  5AD0000033635  FFFF,8001
Example 26 Deleting a Partition

The following command deletes the partition ffff.ibp0.

# dladm delete-part ffff.ibp0
Example 27 Using show-link to Display Partition Information

The following command uses the show-link subcommand to display partition information.

# dladm show-link
LINK        CLASS     MTU    STATE    OVER
e1000g0     phys      1500   up       --
e1000g1     phys      1500   unknown  --
net0        phys      65520  down     --
net3        phys      65520  up       --
net2        phys      65520  up       --
net1        phys      65520  down     --
pffff.ibp0  part      2044   down     ibp0
p8001.ibp2  part      65520  unknown  ibp2
Example 28 Displaying Links in All Zones from the Global Zone

The show-link command shown below displays data links in all zones from the global zone. Links that are not in the global zone are displayed with the zonename prefix followed by the slash (/) separator.

In this example, net0 is a VNIC created in the global zone, zone1/net0 is an automatically created VNIC for zone1, and zone2/net0 is an automatically created VNIC for zone2.

# dladm show-link
LINK                CLASS     MTU    STATE    OVER
e1000g0             phys      1500   up       --
e1000g1             phys      8170   unknown  --
e1000g2             phys      1500   unknown  --
e1000g3             phys      1500   unknown  --
net0                vnic      1500   up       e1000g0
zone1/net0          vnic      1500   up       e1000g0
zone2/net0          vnic      1500   up       e1000g0
Example 29 Displaying Links in the Global Zone

The following show-link command displays data links in the global zone only.

# dladm show-link -z global
LINK                CLASS     MTU    STATE    OVER
e1000g0             phys      1500   up       --
e1000g1             phys      8170   unknown  --
e1000g2             phys      1500   unknown  --
e1000g3             phys      1500   unknown  --
net0                vnic      1500   up       e1000g0
Example 30 Displaying Links for a Specified Zone

The following show-link command displays data links in a specific, non-global zone.

# dladm show-link -z zone1
LINK                CLASS     MTU    STATE    OVER
zone1/net0          vnic      1500   up       e1000g0
Example 31 Displaying Links for a Specified Zone from the Global Zone

The following show-link command displays, from the global zone, data links in a specific, non-global zone.

# dladm show-link -z zone1
LINK                CLASS     MTU    STATE    OVER
zone1/net0          vnic      1500   up       e1000g0
Example 32 Displaying Links in a Non-Global Zone

The following show-link shown below is invoked from zone1 and displays only data links for that zone.

Note that, in show-link output, the zone1/ prefix is not displayed. The prefix is not displayed because the command was invoked from within the zone.

# zlogin zone1
# dladm show-link -z zone1
LINK                CLASS     MTU    STATE    OVER
net0                vnic      1500   up       ?
Example 33 Using -Z Option to Display the Current Zone

The command below presumes the following conditions:

  • The link net1 is currently assigned to zoneA. The entries net1 and zoneA/net1 represents the same link. The ZONE column for these two entries is the same and is the name of the zone to which the link is currently assigned.

  • The link net2 is not assigned to any non-global zone.

  • The link zoneB/net2 is an automatic VNIC created for zoneB.

  • The link zoneC/net2 is an automatic VNIC created for zoneC.

  • The link zoneD/net2 is an IP tunnel created inside zoneD. Unlike for net1, each entry for net2 represents a different link. The ZONE column for these entries is different.

# dladm show-link -Z
LINK        ZONE      CLASS     MTU    STATE    OVER
e1000g0     global    phys      1500   up       --
e1000g1     global    phys      1500   up       --
net1        zoneA     vnic      1500   up       e1000g0
zoneA/net1  zoneA     vnic      1500   up       e1000g0
net2        global    vnic      1500   up       e1000g1
zoneB/net2  zoneB     vnic      1500   up       e1000g1
zoneC/net2  zoneC     vnic      1500   up       e1000g1
zoneD/net2  zoneD     iptun     65515  up       --
Example 34 Displaying VDP Information

The following command displays VDP information for vnic1.

# dladm show-ether -P vdp vnic1
LINK    VSI     VSIID           VSI-TYPEID      VSI-STATE CMD-PENDING
ixgbe1  vnic1   2:8:20:3:2:b    0x58/0          ASSOC     DEASSOC
Example 35 Displaying ECP Information

The following command displays ECP information for ixgbe1.

# dladm show-ether -P ecp  ixgbe1
LINK    SEQNO   ACKNO   LAST-ACK        MAX-RETRIES     TIMEOUTS
ixgbe1  65535   25660   0               3                164
Example 36 Setting the VSI Manager ID, VSI Type, and VSI Version

The following commands set the VSI Manager ID, VSI Type, and VSI Version on vnic1.

# dladm set-linkprop -p vsi-mgrid=fe80::214:4fff:fec2:67c8 vnic1

# dladm set-linkprop -p vsi-typeid=0x64,vsi-vers=1 vnic1
Example 37 Migrating a VLAN, Modifying its VLAN-ID

The following command sequence shows how you migrate a VLAN and modify its VLAN-ID.

# dladm show-vlan vlan0
LINK		   VID SVID PVLAN-TYPE  FLAGS  OVER
vlan0		   100 --   --          -----  net0
# dladm modify-vlan -l net1 -v 200 vlan0
# dladm show-vlan vlan0
LINK		   VID SVID PVLAN-TYPE  FLAGS  OVER
vlan0		   200 --   --          -----  net1
Example 38 Migrating Multiple VNICs

The following command sequence shows how you migrate multiple VNICs.

# dladm show-vnic
LINK      OVER     SPEED  MACADDRESS        MACADDRTYPE    IDS
vnic0     net0     1000   2:8:20:ec:c4:1d   random         VID:0
vnic1     net0     1000   2:8:20:ec:c4:1e   random         VID:0
# dladm modify-vnic -l net1 -L net0
# dladm show-vnic
LINK      OVER     SPEED  MACADDRESS        MACADDRTYPE    IDS
vnic0     net1     1000   2:8:20:ec:c4:1d   random         VID:0
vnic1     net1     1000   2:8:20:ec:c4:1e   random         VID:0
Example 39 Migrating a VNIC and Modifying its MAC Address

The following command sequence shows how you migrate a VNIC and modify its MAC address.

# dladm show-vnic vnic0
LINK      OVER     SPEED  MACADDRESS        MACADDRTYPE    IDS
vnic0     net0     1000   2:8:20:ec:c4:1d   random         VID:0
# dladm modify-vnic -l net1 -m 2:8:20:00:01:02 vnic0
# dladm show-vnic vnic0
LINK      OVER     SPEED  MACADDRESS        MACADDRTYPE    IDS
vnic0     net1     1000   2:8:20:0:1:2      fixed          VID:0
Example 40 Configuring cos and ETS Bandwidth

The following example creates a VNIC with name vnic1 over the physical link net1 and assigns to it a cos value of 3.

# dladm create-vnic -p cos=3 -l net1 vnic1

All packets transmitted by vnic1 will have a VLAN header with the priority field set to 3.

Additionally, if the underlying physical NIC has registered DCB capability, an ETS bandwidth can be assigned to vnic1. The following commands assume the LLDP package is not installed or enabled.

Check if the underlying NIC has registered DCB capability using the ntcs link property. If the value of ntcs is non-zero, the underlying NIC has registered DCB capability.

# dladm show-linkprop -p ntcs net1

The following command assigns an ETS bandwidth of 10% of the link's bandwidth to vnic1.

# dladm set-linkprop -p etsbw_lcl=10 vnic1

Note if the maxbw link property has also been set, then the traffic is limited by the maxbw value.

With the LLDP package (service/network/lldp) installed and enabled, the ETS bandwidth configuration will follow the IEEE 802.1Qaz specification.

The LLDP ETS TLV willing property determines whether the local or the remote's configuration is applied/used.

The etsbw-lcl-advice link property indicates the value recommended by the remote, if available. The effective value of etsbw-lcl link property will indicate the actual ETS bandwidth assigned to vnic1.

# dladm show-linkprop -p etsbw-lcl-advice,etsbw-lcl vnic1

The following command is used to advice the peer to assign 10% of the link's bandwidth for vnic1.

# dladm set-linkprop -p etsbw-rmt-advice=10 vnic1
Example 41 Configuring an EoIB datalink

Inspect the list of all gateways reachable from a specific IB port 'ibp1'.

# dladm show-ib ibp1
LINK   HCAGUID        PORTGUID       PORT STATE  GWNAME    GWPORT    PKEYS
ibp1   212800013F2F5A 212800013F2F5B 1    up     nm2gw-1   0a-eth-1  FFFF
                                                 nm2gw-1   0a-eth-2
                                                 nm2gw-1   0a-eth-3
                                                 nm2gw-1   0a-eth-4

Create an EoIB datalink 'elink1' binding the host IB port 'ibp1' to the ethernet port '0a-eth-2' on the EoIB Gateway 'nm2gw-1'.

# dladm create-eoib -l ibp1 -g nm2gw-1 -c 0a-eth-2 elink1

Verify that an IP interface may be created over the newly created EoIB datalink 'elink1'

# ipadm create-ip elink1
# ipadm create-addr -T static -a local=192.168.99.142/24 elink1/v4
# dladm show-eoib
LINK    GWNAME  GWPORT   GWID   FLAGS   SPEED  MACADDRESS     OVER
elink1  nm2gw-1 0a-eth-2 1A8    aHnU--  10000  0:25:8b:60:2:3 ibp1

If the EoIB datalink 'elink1' is no longer required and may be removed, delete any IP interfaces (or VNICs) built over the datalink and then delete the datalink itself using the delete-eoib subcommand.

# ipadm delete-ip elink1
# dladm delete-eoib elink1
# dladm show-eoib
Example 42 Configuring an EoIB datalink Over an IB Port That is Down

# dladm show-ib -p -o state ibp2
down

# dladm create-eoib -l ibp2 -g nm2gw-1 -c 0a-eth-1 elink2

# ipadm create-ip elink2

# dladm show-link elink2
LINK                CLASS     MTU    STATE    OVER
elink2              eoib      1500   down     ibp2

Now, enable the IB port for ibp2 and check the datalink state.


# dladm show-ib -p -o state ibp2
up

# dladm show-link elink2
LINK                CLASS     MTU    STATE    OVER
elink2              eoib      1500   up       ibp2
Example 43 Configuring an EoIB Datalink When IB Subnet Manager is Down

nm2gw-2# disablesm
Stopping partitiond-daemon. [  OK  ]
Stopping IB Subnet Manager..-. [  OK  ]

ib-host# sminfo
ibwarn: [2488] _do_madrpc: recv failed: Connection timed out
ibwarn: [2488] mad_rpc: _do_madrpc failed; dport (Lid 1)
sminfo: iberror: failed: query

ib-host# dladm create-eoib -l ibp2 -g nm2gw-2 -c 0a-eth-1 elink3

ib-host# ipadm create-ip elink3

ib-host# dladm show-link elink3
LINK                CLASS     MTU    STATE    OVER
elink3              eoib      1500   down     ibp2

Now, enable the IB Subnet Manager on the Gateway and check the state of the datalink again.

ib-host# dladm show-link elink3
LINK                CLASS     MTU    STATE    OVER
elink3              eoib      1500   up       ibp2
Example 44 Displaying the Probe State of the DLMP Mode Aggregation

The following command displays the probe state of the DLMP mode aggregation.

# dladm show-aggr -S aggr1
LINK       PORT   FLAGS  STATE  TARGETS        XTARGETS
aggr1      s1     u--3   active 192.169.0.2    s0
--         s0     u-2-   active --             s1
Example 45 Displaying Help

The following command illustrates the use of invoking the help subcommand without arguments.

# dladm help
The following subcommands are supported:
Bridge subcommands          : add-bridge, create-bridge, 
                              delete-bridge, modify-bridge, 
                              remove-bridge, show-bridge
EoIB subcommands            : create-eoib, delete-eoib,
                              show-eoib
Etherstub subcommands       : create-etherstub, delete-etherstub,
                              show-etherstub
IB subcommands              : create-part, delete-part,
                              show-ib, show-part
IP tunnel subcommands       : create-iptun, delete-iptun,
                              modify-iptun, show-iptun
Link Aggregation subcommands: add-aggr, create-aggr, delete-aggr,
                              modify-aggr, remove-aggr, show-aggr
Link subcommands            : rename-link, reset-linkprop,
                              set-linkprop, show-link, show-linkprop
Secure Object subcommands   : create-secobj, delete-secobj, 
                              show-secobj
VLAN subcommands            : create-vlan, delete-vlan, show-vlan
VNIC subcommands            : create-vnic, delete-vnic, show-vnic
Wifi subcommands            : connect-wifi, disconnect-wifi, 
                              scan-wifi, show-wifi
Miscellaneous subcommands   : delete-phys, show-ether, show-phys,
For more info, run: dladm help subcommand

The following command illustrates the use of invoking the help subcommand with a specific subcommand.

# dladm help create-vnic
usage:
          create-vnic     [-t] -l link [-m 
value | auto |
          {factory [-n slot-id]} | {random [-r 
prefix]} |
          {vrrp -V vrid -A {inet | inet6}} [-v 
vid [-f]]
          [-p prop=value[,...]] 
vnic-link

        example:
          # dladm create-vnic -l net0 -m factory -n 2 -p mtu=1200 vnic1
Example 46 Creating a VNIC in a Non-Global Zone

The following example creates a VNIC v1 in non-global zones zone1 and zone2 from the global zone. zone1/net0 and zone2/net0 are automatically created VNICs for zone1 and zone2 respectively.

# dladm create-vnic -t -l net1 zone1/v1
# dladm create-vnic -t -l net1 zone2/v1
# dladm show-link -Z
LINK                ZONE      CLASS     MTU    STATE    OVER 
net1                global    phys      1500   unknown  -- 
net0                global    phys      1500   up       -- 
zone1/net0          zone1     vnic      1500   up       net0
zone2/net0          zone2     vnic      1500   up       net0
zone1/v1            zone1     vnic      1500   up       net1
zone2/v1            zone2     vnic      1500   up       net1
Example 47 Using –m to Display a VNIC

The following command shows how to use the –m option to display a VNIC.

# dladm show-vnic -m
LINK    OVER      SPEED  MACADDRESSES      MACADDRTYPES     IDS 

vnic0   net5      10000  0:14:4f:fb:87:ee  fixed            VID:0 

vnic1   net5      10000  0:14:4f:87:13:7a  fixed            VID:0 

                         0:14:4f:87:13:7e  fixed 

                         0:14:4f:f8:7e:a   fixed 
Example 48 Enabling SR-IOV mode and creating a VF VNIC

The following commands show how to enable SR-IOV mode and create a VF VNIC.

# dladm set-linkprop -p iov=on net0
# dladm show-linkprop -p iov net0
LINK    PROPERTY  PERM VALUE    EFFECTIVE   DEFAULT   POSSIBLE
net0    iov       rw   auto     on          auto      auto,on,off
# dladm create-vnic -lnet0 v1
# dladm show-linkprop -p iov v1
LINK    PROPERTY  PERM VALUE    EFFECTIVE   DEFAULT   POSSIBLE
v1      iov       r-   inherit  on          inherit   inherit,on,off
Example 49 Displaying SR-IOV information

The following commands can be used to show additional SR-IOV information (continuing from the previous example).

# dladm show-phys -V
LINK    VFS-AVAIL   VFS-INUSE    FLAGS
net0    30          1            -----
# dladm show-vnic -V
LINK    VF-ASSIGNED
v1      ixgbevf0

Alternatively, the above fields can specified through the –o option:

# dladm show-phys -o LINK,VFS-INUSE
LINK    VFS-INUSE
net0    1
# dladm show-vnic -o VF-ASSIGNED
VF-ASSIGNED
ixgbevf0
Example 50 Creating a regular VNIC on a physical link with iov enabled

The following command can be used to create a regular VNIC on a link with iov=on.

# dladm create-vnic -lnet0 -piov=off v1

These commands can be used to verify that the VNIC does not have a VF:

# dladm show-linkprop -p iov v1
LINK    PROPERTY  PERM VALUE    EFFECTIVE   DEFAULT   POSSIBLE
v1      iov       r-   off      off         inherit   inherit,on,off
# dladm show-vnic -V
LINK    VF-ASSIGNED
v1      --
Example 51 Creating a VNIC by connecting it to an Elastic Virtual Switch (EVS)

The following example creates a VNIC by connecting to an EVS.

# dladm create-vnic -t -c HR/vport0 vnic0
# dladm show-vnic -c

LINK   TENANT     EVS    VPORT    OVER     MACADDRESS        IDS
vnic0  sys-global HR     vport0   net2     2:8:20:c1:df:14   VID:100

HR is an EVS and has a port vport0 to which vnic0 will be connected. vnic0 will inherit all the properties of vport0. HR and vport0 are managed through evsadm(1M).

Example 52 Creating IPoIB VNICs

The following example creates IPoIB VNIC with name ipoib_vnic0 over physical link net4 with pkey of 0xffff.

# dladm create-vnic -l net4 -P 0xffff ipoib_vnic0

To see the VNIC information:

# dladm show-vnic

LINK         OVER    SPEED  MACADDRESS        MACADDRTYPE IDS
ipoib_vnic0  net4    32000  80:0:0:4a:fe:..   fixed       PKEY:0xFFFF

# dladm show-vnic  -o link,macaddress

LINK            MACADDRESS
ipoib_vnic0     80:0:0:4a:fe:80:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:21:28:0:1:a0:a5:8e

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

/usr/sbin

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability
system/core-os
Interface Stability
Committed

/sbin

ATTRIBUTE TYPE
ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability
system/core-os
Interface Stability
Committed

Note that, for both /usr/sbin and /sbin, the –s and –i options to the show-aggr, show-link and show-vnic subcommands are Committed Obsolete.

Note that, for both /usr/sbin and /sbin, vswitchmode link property has an interface stability of Volatile.

Note that the bridge-related subcommands, described with dladm subcommands above, require installation of the pkg://solaris/network/bridging package.

See Also

acctadm(1M), autopush(1M), dhcpagent(1M), dlstat(1M), ifconfig(1M), ipadm(1M), ipsecconf(1M), lldpadm(1M), ndd(1M), netadm(1M), netcfg(1M)pooladm(1M), poolcfg(1M), psrset(1M), vrrpadm(1M), wpad(1M), in.dlmpd(1M), zonecfg(1M), attributes(5), ieee802.3(5), dlpi(7P), evsadm(1M)

Notes

The preferred method of referring to an aggregation in the aggregation subcommands is by its link name. Referring to an aggregation by its integer key is supported for backward compatibility, but is not necessary. When creating an aggregation, if a key is specified instead of a link name, the aggregation's link name will be automatically generated by dladm as aggrkey.