Hi Jiliagre - Thanks for the help! That makes sense. To get around it I configured the qfe0 on the global zone to be a new nic and then had my new container share it with it.
I have a Sun 6800 with Solaris 10 u8 and I have an hme card in it and a quad qfe card. I am using the hme0 infc currently. I configured a zone and specified exclusive use of qfe0, but then...
I have a T5240 with 7 LDOMS configured. One night, network comm was broken somehow. Nobody was doing anything on the machine at the time. Here is what I saw in messages: