OpenIndiana USB ethernet support

[brianmat]

I've just finished putting together an OI/Napp-It install for our VMWare backup datastore and the server I am using has only 2 gig NIC ports and 1 card slot which is taken up by the RAID card. It's one of the UnixSurplus Rackable servers.

I want to be able to put a USB dongle on the server for SSH and web GUI access and use the 2 NIC ports to go on our ISCSI/storage network so we are isolated completely. I'm just having some issues trying to find a good how to on doing this in OI. It seems much easier in the Debian/Ubuntu worlds, so I am assuming I am missing a keyword to help narrow my searches.

I have 2 different dongles plugged in to see if I can get 1 to work. One is a Winstars WS-UL220G and the other is a generic 10/100 dongle which listed Linux on the box. Nothing seems to list Solaris specifically, so maybe I am just making an incorrect assumption about USB support.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to get at least one of these setup correctly?

 

[_Gea]

Hardware support of Solaris is mainly given on typical server hardware. I do not know any USB to ethernet adapter to work with OI/Solaris.

On the other hand, if you use iSCSI, all other services are listening on your NICs as well. You cannot exclude them from a NIC beside using the firewall or flow settings with flowadm or using other protocols like FC.

So your options are either local management or management via one of your NICs.