Does anyone know how to successfully configure a trunk (multi) to take over as a partner interface? "ifconfig <trunkname> [optional blah blah blah] partner <partner's ip>" does not work (at least for me ) in 5.3.2.R1. It returns an error about invalid partner. I can provide more detail, just not at the moment.
Yes, you need to say:
ifconfig <trunkname> [optional blah blah> blah] partner <partner's *ifname*> ^^^^^^^^
The error message that comes out of 5.3.2R1 is vague. There is an internal bug report to fix this in a follow-on release.
Note that you can use either <partner's ip> or <partner's ifname> for specifying failover mappings of interfaces (other than vifs) in 5.3.2. Vifs require the <partner's ifname>.
Thanks ...
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