Finding the Oracle Solaris 11 Network Interface Name

You can use the ldm list-netdev command to find the Oracle Solaris OS network interface name that corresponds to a virtual switch or virtual network device. For more information, see the ldm(8) man page. For a domain that runs an OS older than Oracle Solaris 11.2 SRU 1, obtain this information by mapping the MAC address from the combination of the output from the ldm list-domain -o network command and from the dladm show-phys -m command.

The following example shows the ldm list-netdev command. The ldm list-netdev output shows the corresponding Oracle Solaris OS interface name in the NAME column.

primary# ldm list-netdev -l ldg5
DOMAIN
ldg5

NAME CLASS MEDIA STATE   SPEED OVER  LOC
---- ----- ----- -----   ----- ----  ---
net0 VNET  ETHER up      1000  vnet0 primary-vsw0/vnet0-ldg5
    [/virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/network@0]
    MTU       : 1500 [60-1500]
    IPADDR    : 10.129.71.179/255.255.252.0
              : fe80::214:4fff:fef8:3dc/ffc0::
              : 2606:b400:418:17b2:214:4fff:fef8:3dc/ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff::
    MAC_ADDRS : 00:14:4f:f8:03:dc
net1 VNET  ETHER unknown 0R    vnet1 primary-vsw0/ldg5-vnet1
    [/virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/network@1]
    MTU       : 1500 [60-1500]
    MAC_ADDRS : 00:14:4f:f8:9f:eb
net2 VNET  ETHER unknown 0R    vnet3 primary-vsw0/ldg5-vnet2
    [/virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/network@2]
    MTU       : 1500 [60-1500]
    MAC_ADDRS : 00:14:4f:f8:54:97

The corresponding Oracle Solaris OS network interface to the virtual device, ldg5-vnet0, is net0.

To verify that the ldm list-netdev output is correct, run the dladm show-phys command from the ldg5 domain:

ldg5# dladm show-phys -m
LINK SLOT     ADDRESS            INUSE CLIENT
net0 primary  0:14:4f:f8:3:dc    yes   net0
net1 primary  0:14:4f:f8:9f:eb   no    --
net2 primary  0:14:4f:f8:54:97   no    --