IPMP as standby not working

From: Kay Markus Thiel (kay-markus.thiel_at_dw-world.de)
Date: 09/10/04

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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 13:10:56 +0200

    Dear sunmanagers,

    the situation is the following: I read nearly every howto, blueprint and
    thread in this mailinglist according to this theme. But :-((

    I have two interface in my testmaschine (good old ultra-2) and both of
    them are working fine as a hme0 and hme1.

    I would like to configure them as activ/passiv. That means one should be
    a standby interface. Loadbalancing is not required.

    I did the following:

    # ifconfig hme0 unplumb
    # ifconfig hme1 unplumb
    # ifconfig hme0 plumb
    # ifconfig hme1 plumb
    # ifconfig hme0 group cms
    # ifconfig hme1 group cms
    # ifconfig hme0 dummy1 netmask + broadcast + -failover deprecated up
    # ifconfig hme1 dummy2 netmask + broadcast + -failover deprecated up
    # ifconfig hme0 addif klessing netmask + broadcast + failover up

    In my understanding the productiv address (in this case klessing) is the
    one that is shifted between the two interfaces. The test adresses are
    fix. Ok?

    Have a look in my messages:

    Sep 7 15:32:23 klessing in.mpathd[108]: [ID 255185 daemon.error]
    Failures cannot be detected on hme1 as no IFF_NOFAILOVER address is
    available
    Sep 7 15:32:23 klessing in.mpathd[108]: [ID 255185 daemon.error]
    Failures cannot be detected on hme0 as no IFF_NOFAILOVER address is
    available

    So far everything is ok. But:

    Sep 7 15:34:03 klessing in.mpathd[108]: [ID 490503 daemon.error]
    Failure detection restored on hme0 as an IFF_NOFAILOVER address is
    available
    Sep 7 15:34:15 klessing in.mpathd[108]: [ID 594170 daemon.error] NIC
    failure detected on hme0 of group cms
    Sep 7 15:34:40 klessing in.mpathd[108]: [ID 490503 daemon.error]
    Failure detection restored on hme1 as an IFF_NOFAILOVER address is
    available
    Sep 7 15:35:02 klessing in.mpathd[108]: [ID 168056 daemon.error] All
    Interfaces in group cms have failed

    I didnt pull out any cables or so up to this moment. Just configuring
    ...

    Is there anybody out there who can help? Many thanks in advance! I will
    summerize!

    Kay Markus Thiel
     
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