How to configure Solaris 10 Link Based IPMP Troubleshooting Solaris 10 IPMP What’s a Probe Based IPMP ? The failure detection method used by the in.mpathd daemon differentiates the IPMP as probe based or link based. Probe based IPMP uses 2 types of addresses in its configuration. 1. Test address – Used by in.mpathd daemon for detecting the failure (also called as probe address). 2. Data Address – Used by applications for actual data transfer. In case of probe based IPMP : - … [Read more...] about How to configure Solaris 10 Probe based IPMP
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How to configure Probe Based IPMP in Solaris 11
In the last post we have seen how to configure link based IPMP in solaris 11. Let us see how we can configure a probe-based IPMP in solaris 11. Solaris 11 uses 2 methods for probe-based failure detection 1. Using test addreses (default method) 2. Transitive Probing - No test addresses are used To enable transitive probing : # svccfg -s svc:/network/ipmp setprop config/transitive-probing=true # svcadm refresh svc:/network/ipmp:default To disable transitive probing : # svccfg -s … [Read more...] about How to configure Probe Based IPMP in Solaris 11
How to configure link based IPMP in Solaris 11
Oracle made a tone of changes to its networking stack in Solaris 11. Persistent network configuration is now managed by SMF, and not by editing following files : /etc/defaultdomain /etc/dhcp.* /etc/hostname.* /etc/hostname.ip*.tun* /etc/nodename /etc/nsswitch.conf IPMP conponents : 1. mpathd daemon - This daemon is responsible to detect an interface failure or repair. It uses a configuration file /etc/default/mpathd to determine when to failover the interface. # cat … [Read more...] about How to configure link based IPMP in Solaris 11