IPMP test address selection

hello everyone. i have dedicated network with two servers with solaris9 configured. sunray servers installed on both. both servers connected by two NIC's with IPMP configured. there are no anymore devices in the network. i have following trouble: if any of servers down (reboot, halt etc) anothers server stop answer on network request with message in log: 'in.mpathd[236]: [ID 168056 daemon.error] All Interfaces in group test have failed'. all becoming normal, when rebooted server online. i got log message:

Jul 4 11:59:10 sf210-contourK in.mpathd[236]: [ID 299542 daemon.error] NIC repair detected on bge3 of group test

Jul 4 11:59:10 sf210-contourK in.mpathd[236]: [ID 237757 daemon.error] At least 1 interface (bge3) of group test has repaired

Jul 4 11:59:10 sf210-contourK in.mpathd[236]: [ID 620804 daemon.error] Successfully failed back to NIC bge2

Jul 4 11:59:10 sf210-contourK in.mpathd[236]: [ID 299542 daemon.error] NIC repair detected on bge2 of group test

snoop show, that avery server selectig addresses of opposite server by test addresses:

(10.99.0.1-2-3 - one server, 10.99.10.1-2-3 second server)

10.99.0.2 -> 10.99.10.3ICMP Echo request (ID: 60421 Sequence number: 5594) 10.99.10.3 -> 10.99.0.2ICMP Echo reply (ID: 60421 Sequence number: 5594)

10.99.10.1 -> 10.99.0.3ICMP Echo request (ID: 65027 Sequence number: 5595)10.99.0.3 -> 10.99.10.1ICMP Echo reply (ID: 65027 Sequence number: 5595)

10.99.0.1 -> 10.99.10.3ICMP Echo request (ID: 60420 Sequence number: 5595) 10.99.10.3 -> 10.99.0.1ICMP Echo reply (ID: 60420 Sequence number: 5595)

looks like this is reason by total network fail. is any solution for solving rouble like this?

[1743 byte] By [konsul] at [2007-11-26 8:28:10]
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Hello,

IPMP can be configured in two different modes:

- based on ping requests to detect link failure

- using the link state (MII)

it seems that you are using the 1st mode. Unfortunately, if you have only wo nodes in your network, the ICMP request will fail as soon as one serer will be down.

Adding a third server/station is one of the solution:.

The other one is to use the MII mode: in that case, the link status is based on the connectivity for example, if your link is connected to a switch, the link failure will be detected if the cable is unplugged

Hope this helps./

LaurentFaipot at 2007-7-6 21:44:49 > top of Java-index,General,Network Configurations...