17:27:10 <jacuzzibob> Greetings, Illumos/OmniOS beginner here. Maybe someone can point me into the right direction: One of my machines has a bunch of physical network interfaces. Is there a way to make the machine act like a network switch using OmniOS? I played around with bridge instances without success.
17:29:42 <rmustacc> What layer are you trying to work at? L2 or L3?
17:30:01 <rmustacc> The L2 bridging is an actual 802.1D bridge that wants to speak spanning tree by default.
17:30:10 <rmustacc> Specifically the dladm bridge is.
17:31:57 <jacuzzibob> Hello :) Thanks for your reply! Getting L2 to work would be awesome for the start.
17:35:07 <jacuzzibob> On FreeBSD I used bridge interfaces to accomplish this
17:41:32 <rmustacc> OK, I'm personally less familiar with tihs part here. What specifically have you done so far that didn't work?
17:42:20 <rmustacc> Are you using spanning tree or something else on your network or are you looking for more of a 'dumb' L2 switch?
17:44:33 <jacuzzibob> I'll try to explain it a little bit better. My network knowledge is somewhat limited ...
17:46:05 <jacuzzibob> This machine is part ob my local network and is connected to a switch. I'm trying to use all the ports on the machine as additional switch ports
18:26:57 <jacuzzibob> I tried creating the bridge with just the physical NICs, but how would one set the IPv4 for the machine? dladm create-if <bridgename> fails with 'Interface already in use'
18:32:49 <jacuzzibob> OK, looks like I have to read up on a few things (802.1D etc) before I bother you any further. But thanks anyways.
18:32:50 <jacuzzibob> PS: I saw a couple of your talks on Youtube rmustacc. Keep up the good work
18:36:43 <rmustacc> Hmm. I suspect that the dladm bridge concept may not be what you're looking for. I'm not as familiar with this part personally, but hopefully someone else will know.
18:44:17 <andyf> Me neither, but I think you can create a vlan or vnic interface on a bridge link, then assign an IP address for that. You have to specify the VLAN though and it can't be the default (untagged).
18:54:43 <jacuzzibob> Thanks for the additional information. I'll try my luck and come back to you
19:10:26 <rmustacc> Maybe danmcd has some experience here?
19:11:19 <danmcd> I've not used rbridges to join physical NICs.  If I have multiple NICs on the same prefix I'll usually zone them at least one zone per physical, and bless one zone as a router zone.
19:12:03 <danmcd> E.g. if I have igb[0-3] I'll have at least four zones.  If there's a router on the subnet off-machine, that's just everyone's default route.  If my machine IS the router, I'll bless a zone as a router zone.
19:12:19 <danmcd> If I have more than four zones' worth of connectivity, that's what vnics are for.  :)
19:12:51 <danmcd> Sorry I can't be of more assitance than that.  If the problem you're trying to solve is, "I wanna use all of these NICs" that's what I'd do.
19:13:06 <danmcd> If you want your machine to literally act as a switch... you'll ned some help.
19:23:35 <jacuzzibob> Thanks danmcd ! Sounds really interesting. I will look into it.
19:26:16 <danmcd> I suspect proper use of rbridges would help, but it's not used at all in the public base of illumos AFAICT, so no experience upon which to draw.
21:53:39 <jclulow> Yes you need to create a VNIC _on the bridge_ generally
21:54:07 <jclulow> as if it were plugged into the switch you've made