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Saturday, September 20, 2014

Solaris 11 - Basic of Network Administration

Especially network changes is one of the main concern in Solaris 11. Significant development in network side when we comparing with Solaris 10. Solaris 11 comes with profile-based network configurations which contains manual (Fixed Network configuration profile - NCP) and Automatic (reactive-Network Configuration profile - NCP) modes. Also introduced Network Auto-Magic (NWAM) features. 

Automatic NCP : Uses DHCP which get basic network configuration as like IP Address, route, and DNS server from any of the NIC cards. IP multipathing will not works.

Manual NCP : If we enable DefaultFixed NCP, then network interface to be configured manually with using ipadm and dladm commands. DefaultFixed NCP should be used where the system will be reconfigured using Oracle Solaris Dynamic Reconfiguration or whenever hot-swappable interface are in use or when we required IP multipathing.

We can find which NCP is active through “netadm” command, from the below output we can see Automatic NCP is enabled and active.
root@unixrock:~# netadm list
TYPE        PROFILE        STATE
ncp         Automatic      online
ncu:phys    net0           online
ncu:phys    net1           online
ncu:phys    net3           online
ncu:phys    net2           online
ncu:ip      net0           online
ncu:ip      net1           online
ncu:ip      net3           online
ncu:ip      net2           online
ncp         DefaultFixed   disabled
loc         DefaultFixed   offline
loc         Automatic      online
loc         NoNet          offline
root@unixrock:~#
Before changing the Automatic to Manual NCP, Let's familiar with some basic Network administration commands in Solaris 11.
Showing the phyiscal interface
root@unixrock:~# dladm show-phys
LINK              MEDIA                STATE      SPEED  DUPLEX    DEVICE
net0              Ethernet             up         1000   full      e1000g0
net1              Ethernet             up         1000   full      e1000g1
net3              Ethernet             up         1000   full      e1000g3
net2              Ethernet             up         1000   full      e1000g2
root@unixrock:~# 
Showing the Link status of the physical interface
root@unixrock:~# dladm show-link
LINK                CLASS     MTU    STATE    OVER
net0                phys      1500   up       --
net1                phys      1500   up       --
net3                phys      1500   up       --
net2                phys      1500   up       --
root@unixrock:~#
checking existing interface on the system
root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-if
IFNAME     CLASS    STATE    ACTIVE OVER
lo0        loopback ok       yes    --
net0       ip       ok       yes    --
net1       ip       ok       yes    --
net2       ip       ok       yes    --
net3       ip       ok       yes    --
root@unixrock:~#
checking MAC address and IP address
root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-addr
ADDROBJ           TYPE     STATE        ADDR
lo0/v4            static   ok           127.0.0.1/8
net0/v4           dhcp     ok           192.168.113.139/24
net1/v4           dhcp     ok           192.168.113.141/24
net2/v4           dhcp     ok           192.168.113.143/24
net3/v4           dhcp     ok           192.168.113.142/24
lo0/v6            static   ok           ::1/128
net0/v6           addrconf ok           fe80::20c:29ff:febf:ac5b/10
net1/v6           addrconf ok           fe80::20c:29ff:febf:ac65/10
net2/v6           addrconf ok           fe80::20c:29ff:febf:ac6f/10
net3/v6           addrconf ok           fe80::20c:29ff:febf:ac79/10
root@unixrock:~#
Trying to switch to manual NCP (excute from console) and checking the network configurations changes
root@unixrock:~#
root@unixrock:~# netadm enable -p ncp DefaultFixed
Enabling ncp 'DefaultFixed'
root@unixrock:~#
root@unixrock:~# netadm list
TYPE        PROFILE        STATE
ncp         Automatic      disabled
ncp         DefaultFixed   online
loc         DefaultFixed   online
loc         Automatic      online
loc         NoNet          offline
root@unixrock:~#
root@unixrock:~# dladm show-phys
LINK              MEDIA           STATE      SPEED  DUPLEX  DEVICE
net0              Ethernet       UNKNOWN      1000   full   e1000g0
net1              Ethernet       UNKNOWN      1000   full   e1000g1
net3              Ethernet       UNKNOWN      1000   full   e1000g3
net2              Ethernet       UNKNOWN      1000   full   e1000g2
root@unixrock:~#
root@unixrock:~# dladm show-link
LINK                CLASS     MTU    STATE    OVER
net0                phys      1500   UNKNOWN       --
net1                phys      1500   UNKNOWN       --
net3                phys      1500   UNKNOWN       --
net2                phys      1500   UNKNOWN       --
root@unixrock:~#
root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-if
IFNAME     CLASS    STATE    ACTIVE OVER
lo0        loopback ok       yes    --
root@unixrock:~#
root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-addr
ADDROBJ           TYPE     STATE        ADDR
lo0/v4            static   ok           127.0.0.1/8
lo0/v6            static   ok           ::1/128
root@unixrock:~#
After changing to DefaultFixed (manaul mode),None of the interface has not configured now in system. Lets we start configure the interface with using "ipadm" commands manual mode.
root@unixrock:~# dladm show-phys
LINK              MEDIA           STATE      SPEED  DUPLEX  DEVICE
net0              Ethernet       UNKNOWN      1000   full   e1000g0
net1              Ethernet       UNKNOWN      1000   full   e1000g1
net3              Ethernet       UNKNOWN      1000   full   e1000g3
net2              Ethernet       UNKNOWN      1000   full   e1000g2
root@unixrock:~#
root@unixrock:~# ipadm create-ip net0
root@unixrock:~# 
root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-if
IFNAME     CLASS    STATE    ACTIVE OVER
lo0        loopback ok       yes    --
net0    ip       down     no     --   
root@unixrock:~#
Asssing IP Address to the net0 interface
root@unixrock:~# ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.113.139/24 net0/v4test
root@unixrock:~#
root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-if
IFNAME     CLASS    STATE    ACTIVE OVER
lo0        loopback ok       yes    --
net0       ip       ok       yes    --
root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-addr
ADDROBJ           TYPE     STATE        ADDR
lo0/v4            static   ok           127.0.0.1/8)
net0/v4test       static   ok           192.168.113.139/24
lo0/v6            static   ok           ::1/128
root@unixrock:~#
NOTE : "T" - option can be used for three specify interface mode statis, DHCP and addrconf (auto configured IPV6 address) Trying DHCP for another interface net1
root@unixrock:~#
root@unixrock:~# ipadm create-ip net1
root@unixrock:~# ipadm create-addr -T dhcp net1/v4test2
root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-if
IFNAME     CLASS    STATE    ACTIVE OVER
lo0        loopback ok       yes    --
net0       ip       ok       yes    --
net1       ip       ok       yes    --
root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-addr
ADDROBJ           TYPE     STATE        ADDR
lo0/v4            static   ok           127.0.0.1/8
net0/v4test       static   ok           192.168.113.139/24
net1/v4test2      dhcp     ok           192.168.113.141/24
lo0/v6            static   ok           ::1/128
root@unixrock:~#
If you want to change the IP, then we need to delete and recreate the interface with new IP. Let we change the IP address
root@unixrock:~# ipadm delete-ip net2
root@unixrock:~# ipadm create-ip net2
root@unixrock:~# ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.113.140 net2/v4test1
root@unixrock:~# ipadm show-addr
ADDROBJ           TYPE     STATE        ADDR
lo0/v4            static   ok           127.0.0.1/8
net0/v4test       static   ok           192.168.113.139/24
net1/v4test2      dhcp     ok           192.168.113.141/24
net2/v4test1      static   ok           192.168.113.140/24
lo0/v6            static   ok           ::1/128
root@unixrock:~#
COOL ...!!! I hope we have covered basic of Network configuration in solaris 11. In my next post will be covered with advanced Network configuration methods as like Vswtich, Vnic, aggregations, IPMP, etc.,

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