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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="vboxbowsolaris11">
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| 4 | <title>Installing the Alternate Bridged Networking Driver on Oracle Solaris 11
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| 5 | Hosts</title>
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| 7 | <body>
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| 8 | <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> includes a network filter driver that utilizes Oracle
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| 9 | Solaris 11's Crossbow functionality. By default, this new driver is installed for Oracle Solaris 11 hosts that
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| 10 | have support for it. </p>
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| 11 | <p>To force installation of the older STREAMS based network filter driver, execute as root the following command
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| 12 | before installing the <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> package: </p>
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| 13 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ touch /etc/vboxinst_vboxflt</pre>
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| 14 | <p>To force installation of the Crossbow based network filter driver, execute as root the following command before
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| 15 | installing the <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> package: </p>
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| 16 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ touch /etc/vboxinst_vboxbow</pre>
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| 17 | <p>To check which driver is currently being used by <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>, execute: </p>
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| 18 | <pre xml:space="preserve">$ modinfo | grep vbox</pre>
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| 19 | <p>If the output contains <i>vboxbow</i>, it indicates <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> is
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| 20 | using the Crossbow network filter driver, while the name <i>vboxflt</i> indicates usage of the older STREAMS
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| 21 | network filter. </p>
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| 22 | </body>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | </topic>
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