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Subject:    Network/IPMP configuration difficulties
From:       Markus Mayer <mymaillists () gmx ! at>
Date:       2007-07-31 15:19:07
Message-ID: 200707311719.08215.mymaillists () gmx ! at
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Hi all,

I've been pulling my hair out over this one since friday, and still haven't 
found why it doesn't work.

I am trying to configure IPMP on two V445's with Solaris 10 11/06 with all the 
latest patches up until today.  I have 8 interfaces on each machine, 4 fibre 
(e1000g0-3), 4 copper (bge0-3).  The configuration should be for failover of 
interfaces.  My intended configuration will be e1000g0 and e1000g2 as one 
group to face the internet, e1000g1 and e1000e3 as the second group (or 
individually) for an interchange for a failover cluster, bge0 and 1 as a 
third group, and bge2 and 3 as the fourth group.  That's the plan...

During system installation, there was only one fibre interface connected, 
e1000g2, which I configured.  The remaining interfaces were connected to our 
switches last week.  The first problem is I can't get this configuration to 
change.  I want to set up e1000g0 as the primary interface, and e1000g2 as 
the failover.  Despite all entries in /etc/machinename.e1000g(0-3), the 
system after reboots seems to completely ignore all entries there.  I've 
tried replumbing, ifconfig manually, and following the instructions in the 
sun manual "System Administration Guide. IP Services" part number 
816-4554-13, pages 94-95, 98-102, and in the IPMP chapter, pages 659-670.

In my configuration files in /etc, I have the following (the machine's name is 
wallaby):

/etc/wallaby.e1000g0
149.148.224.112
netmask + broadcast + group globalnet up

/etc/wallaby.e1000g1
192.168.1.10
netmask + broadcast + group interchange up

/etc/wallaby.e1000g2
192.168.1.2
netmask + broadcast + deprecated group globalnet -failover standby up

/etc/wallaby.e1000g3
192.168.1.11
netmask + broadcast + deprecated group interchange -failover standby up

/etc/wallaby6.e1000g0

/etc/wallaby6.e1000g1
-failover group globalnet standby up

wallaby:~# dladm show-link
bge0            type: non-vlan  mtu: 1500       device: bge0
bge1            type: non-vlan  mtu: 1500       device: bge1
e1000g0         type: non-vlan  mtu: 1500       device: e1000g0
e1000g1         type: non-vlan  mtu: 1500       device: e1000g1
bge2            type: non-vlan  mtu: 1500       device: bge2
bge3            type: non-vlan  mtu: 1500       device: bge3
e1000g2         type: non-vlan  mtu: 1500       device: e1000g2
e1000g3         type: non-vlan  mtu: 1500       device: e1000g3


For the remainder of the IPMP configuration, I've tried plumbing the 
interfaces manually, setting groups, which seems to get noticed in the 
configuration at least.  After reboot, everything is gone and I'm back to the 
old e1000g2 interface only :-(

Does anyone have any idea how I can get this configuration working?  As far as 
I have seen from the manuals, what I have should work...  If I've left out 
any information, please tell me.

thanks and regards
Markus
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