LMS3.1 in Solaris 10 zone - physical interface needed?

[g.meerkoetter]

We're going to install LMS into a nonglobal Solaris zone soon.

If I do not reserve an extra physical interface for the zone, the builtin packet sniffer (jet)

will not work, since it can't switch the network interface into promiscuous mode.

I can live with that limitation, since I can easily use snoop in the global zone instead.

But I'm wondering if there are further limitations which could convince me to add an extra interface to this machine.

[Joe Clarke · Accepted solution]

None that we have found. JET is the only thing that requires raw driver access, and thus would benefit from a dedicated interface (provided you're running new enough Solaris).

[g.meerkoetter]

Thanks Joe,

I'm going to use a single interface, then.