Solaris IP Multipathing – an example

9 Nov 2010

An example of Solaris IP Multipathing, for future reference:

# cat /etc/hostname.bge2
10.888.999.133 netmask + broadcast + mtu 1380 deprecated -failover group inner-prod up 
 addif 10.888.999.132 netmask + broadcast + mtu 1380 group inner-prod up
# cat /etc/hostname.bge3
10.888.999.134 netmask + broadcast + mtu 1380 deprecated -failover standby group inner-prod up

giving:

# ifconfig bge2
bge2: flags=9040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER> mtu 1380 index 4
 inet 10.888.999.133 netmask fffffff0 broadcast 10.225.228.143
 groupname inner-prod
 ether 0:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
# ifconfig bge3
bge3: flags=69040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER,STANDBY,INACTIVE> mtu 1380 index 5
 inet 10.888.999.134 netmask fffffff0 broadcast 10.888.999.143
 groupname inner-prod
 ether 0:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx