15:28:24 <xmerlin> is it possible to have the installer patched to use the i226 ports in passthrought and the admin net on localhost? 
16:16:22 <sjorge> you can probably create the admin on an etherstub, then have a vm with a vnic in the etherstub and the i226 as a ppt device
16:16:45 <sjorge> not sure smartos will boot like that thoigh
16:44:11 <danmcd> If your bhyve that's handling I226 can cope with bridging two nics (etherstub and I226), you should be able to do okay, as long as any I226-adjacent (netstub) VMs don't need off-link early.
16:45:02 <danmcd> This is not much different than my HDC setup, where my router is a native zone, but on a different physical link (igb1 vs. igb0).  Also my router zone does ARP-lying/proxy-ARP for remote-access guests which get addrs from the internal network block.
16:45:48 <danmcd> I think you could PPT an I226 to a VM xmerlin.  I have no idea, however, how to do this directly in the installer.  I can imagine a lot of manual setup.
16:45:56 <danmcd> Sorry that isn't 100% helpful.
16:49:01 <danmcd> I wish someone not (me or rm) ( == not me and not rm , thanks demorgan)  had cycles to port igc(4D) into illumos.  IIRC igc isn't much different from e1000g/igb so stealing ideas from those two, combining with the Intel Common Code (like $UTS/common/io/e1000api/ in illumos) for igc.
16:53:14 <xmerlin> danmcd, Is it possible to fix the installer to complete the installation using the localhost interface ?
16:54:28 <danmcd> I don't know xmerlin.  I can imagine a few ways to trick it but I'd have to try them out and I can't right now because I'm gearing up for meeting-Wednesday plus release-branch tonight.
16:55:12 <danmcd> I do wonder if you can get a shell-escape and, for installer purposes, create an etherstub and GZ vnic for it (per sjorge), and see if the installer's network-detection will recognize it on a 2nd pass.
16:55:23 <danmcd> Like I said, I've no time to test that right now.
16:58:24 <xmerlin> danmcd, I can try ...how can I invoke the installer from the console?
16:59:27 <danmcd> Oh...
16:59:34 <danmcd> I thought you were installing fresh.
17:00:01 <xmerlin> I'm installing fresh but the installer stops because it cannot find the network interface
17:00:24 <xmerlin> so I need to execute it from the console after creating a fake network interface
17:00:33 <danmcd> Does the installer let you exit the shell and it tries again?
17:01:09 <xmerlin> the installer is not executed ...I can login using root and the generated password
17:03:32 <danmcd> So use that shell time to create an etherstub and a vnic on top of it (see dladm(8)).  Check the svcs -xv, you may merely need to restart the halted service after using dladm.
17:03:42 <xmerlin> ok
17:03:44 <danmcd> (smartdc/config possibly)
17:14:34 <bahamat> Yes, smartdc/config
17:21:38 <xmerlin> thank you