Ip multipathing not working

From: Dave Markham (dave.markham@fjserv.net)
Date: Thu Nov 30 2006 - 08:04:55 EST


I have set ip multipathing up on solaris 9 but i dont think its working
and am unsure why.

Please see below ifconfig -a and /etc/hostname* files. When i just down
an interface to test it it gives an error in the messages file of

Nov 29 15:41:05 lister in.mpathd[23009]: [ID 255185 daemon.error]
Failures cannot be detected on bge0 as no IFF_NOFAILOVER address is
available

When i look in the man this says because there isnt a test address
assigned but there is so im stuck.

Anyone any ideas?

(ips removed for security)

root@host# cat /etc/hostname.bge0

host-phys1 netmask + broadcast + group group1 deprecated -failover up
addif host netmask + broadcast + failover up

root@host# cat /etc/hostname.bge1

host-phys2 netmask + broadcast + group group1 deprecated -failover
standby up

root@host#
root@host# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
bge0:
flags=9040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER>
mtu 1500 index 4
        inet xxx.xxx.xxx.21 netmask ffffff00 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.255
        groupname group1
        ether 0:14:4f:4d:d2:ed
bge0:1: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 4
        inet xxx.xxx.xxx.20 netmask ffffff00 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.255
bge1:
flags=69040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER,STANDBY,INACTIVE>
mtu 1500 index 8
        inet xxx.xxx.xxx.22 netmask ffffff00 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.255
        groupname group1
        ether 0:14:4f:4d:d2:ee
root@host#
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