Summary: The network interface of sun Fire V440 can't work correctly

From: watson (watson2046@163.com)
Date: Thu Mar 18 2004 - 07:06:41 EST


thanks for the people who replied, especially for Darren Dunham, Charles Rawls,Russell_C_Page@national.com.au,Adrian Cole, and so on. You can get the answer from the email of Darren Dunham as the following:
> >
> > Dear all,
> > I have setup a brand new sun fire v440 system, with the os solaris 8 07/03. Then I added the path 8_Recommended in it.
> > There two built-in network interfaces on the system. But only one network interface can connect with other system with the ping utility.
> >
> > details of the system configuration:
> > os : solaris 8 07/03
> > patch: 8_Recommended
> >
> > #cat /etc/hosts
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost
> > 192.168.92.8 loghost oracleserver abc.com
> > 192.168.92.6 loracleserver1
> >
> > #cat /etc/hostname.ce0
> > oracleserver
> >
> > #cat /etc/hostname.ce1
> > oracleserver1
> >
> > #cat /etc/netmasks
> > 192.168.92.0 255.255.254.0
>
>
>
> > ok>printenv local-mac-address?
> > local-mac-address? = true
> > if both the ce0 and ce1 is running, only the ce0 interface can ping another host(192.168.92.1). if let the ce0 down, then the ce1 interface can ping another host(192.168.92.1).
>
> You have 2 separate interfaces on the same subnet. That is not
> supported the way you have it. Since all outbound packets are routed
> via a routing table, outbound packets choose one interface.
>
> You can use IP Multipathing to have both interfaces active and available
> for failover.
>
>
>
> --
> Darren Dunham ddunham@taos.com
> Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
> Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area
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