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  <title>Installing the Alternate Bridged Networking Driver on Oracle Solaris 11
      Hosts</title>
  
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    <p><ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> includes a network filter driver that utilizes Oracle
      Solaris 11's Crossbow functionality. By default, this new driver is installed for Oracle Solaris 11 hosts that
      have support for it. </p>
    <p>To force installation of the older STREAMS based network filter driver, execute as root the following command
      before installing the <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> package: </p>
    <pre xml:space="preserve">$ touch /etc/vboxinst_vboxflt</pre>
    <p>To force installation of the Crossbow based network filter driver, execute as root the following command before
      installing the <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> package: </p>
    <pre xml:space="preserve">$ touch /etc/vboxinst_vboxbow</pre>
    <p>To check which driver is currently being used by <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>, execute: </p>
    <pre xml:space="preserve">$ modinfo | grep vbox</pre>
    <p>If the output contains <i>vboxbow</i>, it indicates <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/> is
      using the Crossbow network filter driver, while the name <i>vboxflt</i> indicates usage of the older STREAMS
      network filter. </p>
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