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Bug ID 4713308
Synopsis IPMP shouldn't failover unconfigured logical interfaces
State 10-Fix Delivered (Fix available in build)
Category:Subcategory network:ipmp
Keywords clearview
Responsible Engineer Peter Memishian
Reported Against s10
Duplicate Of
Introduced In solaris_9
Commit to Fix snv_107
Fixed In snv_107
Release Fixed solaris_nevada(snv_107)
Related Bugs 6454375 , 6783149 , 4505560 , 5103716
Submit Date 11-July-2002
Last Update Date 28-January-2009
Description
If an IPv4 logical interface isn't configured, so that the address is 0.0.0.0 and the interface is down, IPMP shouldn't fail it over.  For an unconfigured logical interface 0 (the physical interface), the result of failover is an extra unconfigured logical interface, to replace the one that gets failed over.

There isn't a problem for IPv6, as after plumbing there is only the link local address configured, and IPMP doesn't fail these over.


 xxxxx@xxxxx.com 2002-11-14
One more comment on this: It seems that having a 0.0.0.0 v4 address which is down is legal. However we do get messages such as these:
arp: ar_entry_query: Could not find the ace for source address 0.0.0.0

These messages could be alarming to an administrator. Can these messages be suppressed as well since 0.0.0.0 is a valid v4 address.
Work Around
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Comments
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