How to Configure Physical Link Status Updates
This procedure shows how to enable physical link status updates for virtual network devices.
You can also enable physical link status updates for a virtual switch device by following similar steps and specifying the linkprop=phys-state
option to the ldm add-vsw
and ldm set-vsw
commands.
Note:
Iflinkprop=phys-state
is specified and the physical link is down, the virtual network device reports its link status as down, even if the connection to the virtual switch is up. This situation occurs because the Oracle Solaris OS does not currently provide interfaces to report two distinct link states, such as virtual-link-state and physical-link-state.