On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 03:20:43PM -0600, "" == Rainchik, Aleksandr (MED, Non GE) Aleksandr.Rainchik@med.ge.com wrote:
Can I ask you about that "Solaris's IP network multipathing failover and fallback" you've mentioned on toasters mailing list: Is is something that Solaris 8 has right out of box? Or you need to purchase additional pieces of software, like Sun Trunking or Sun Cluster Services, to implement such a feature?
Right out of the box in Solaris 8 10/00
IP Network Multipathing Administration Guide (mpathd)
http://docs.sun.com:80/ab2/coll.663.4/IPNETADMREFMAN/@Ab2TocView?Ab2Lang=C&a...
but they sure burn a lot of IP addresses to implemnt it (it seems you need four IP# per interface pair ...)
--pwo
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