SUMMARY: Ip multipathing not working

From: Dave Markham <dave.markham_at_fjserv.net> Date: Thu Nov 30 2006 - 09:05:06 EST · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Thu Mar 03 2016 - 06:44:03 EST

Thanks loads to people who replied.

Dragos Stoichitsecu, Pascal Grostabussiat, Angelo.

I did suspect that just doing an ifconfig bge0 down was not quite a real
test and angelo gave me the if_mpadm command which seems to have worked
fine :-

root@host# if_mpadm -d bge0
Nov 30 13:28:05 host in.mpathd[23009]: Successfully failed over from NIC
bge0 to NIC bge1

Nov 30 13:28:05 host in.mpathd[23009]: [ID 832587 daemon.error]
Successfully failed over from NIC bge0 to NIC bge1
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=89040842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER,OFFLINE>
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
bge1:
flags=29040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER,STANDBY>
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
bge1:1: flags=21000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,STANDBY> mtu
1500 index 8
        inet xxx.xxx.xxx.20 netmask ffffff00 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.255
root@host# if_mpadm -r bge0
Nov 30 13:30:06 host in.mpathd[23009]: Successfully failed back to NIC bge0
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
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