Problems at Solaris 8 IPMP
A V890 machine is connected to Cisco switches then link to a Nortel firewall. After configuring IPMP. pc can telnet and ftp to the sun machine without any problem. Host is showing some errors in message files. But IPMP configuration was done similar for all the SUN machines.
V890 log :
May 12 04:33:30 db-1 in.mpathd[38]: [ID 168056 daemon.error] All Interfaces in group test3 have failed
May 12 04:33:57 db-1 in.mpathd[38]: [ID 237757 daemon.error] At least 1interface (eri0) of group test3 has repaired
May 12 04:33:57 db-1 in.mpathd[38]: [ID 299542 daemon.error] NIC repair detected on eri0 of group test3
May 12 04:33:58 db-1 in.mpathd[38]: [ID 299542 daemon.error] NIC repair detected on ce0 of group test3
May 12 04:33:58 db-1 in.mpathd[38]: [ID 620804 daemon.error] Successfully failed back to NIC ce0
His network card configuration is as follows :
xyz@node-1 # ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
ce0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 192.168.1.207 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
groupname test3
ether 0:3:ba:da:9:9b
ce0:1: flags=9040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 192.168.1.123 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
eri0: flags=69040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER,STANDBY,INACTIVE> mtu 1500 index 3
inet 192.168.1.124 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
groupname test3
ether 0:3:ba:ce:91:4d
xyz@node-1 #
Another sun servers has no errors ....
Which master encountered such a situation who can help us .. Thank you in advance
Regards
Britto Sidhan

