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You can get a list of all the coni gured TCP/IP stacks with a very similar esxcli command:
esxcli --server=<vCenter host name> --vihost=<ESXi host name>
--username=<vCenter administrative user> network ip netstack list
Once the new TCP/IP stack is created, you can, if you wish, continue to coni gure the stack
using the esxcli command. However, you will probably i nd it easier to use the vSphere Web
Client to do the actual coni guration of the new TCP/IP stack, as we describe in the next section.
Configuring TCP/IP Stack Settings
You've actually seen references to the TCP/IP stacks already at least once (when creating a
VMkernel interface), but the actual settings for the TCP/IP stacks are found in the same place
where you create and coni gure other host networking settings: in the Networking section of the
Manage tab for an ESXi host object, as shown in Figure 5.19.
Figure 5.19
TCP/IP stack set-
tings are located
with other host net-
working confi gura-
tion options.
In Figure 5.19 you can see the new TCP/IP stack, named nfsStack, that we created in previ-
ous section. To edit the settings for that stack, you'll simply select it from the list and click the
Edit TCP/IP Stack Coni guration icon (it looks like a pencil above the list of TCP/IP stacks). That
brings up the Edit TCP/IP Stack Coni guration dialog box, shown in Figure 5.20.
Figure 5.20
Each TCP/IP stack
can have its own
DNS confi guration,
routing informa-
tion, and other
advanced settings.
