[SunHELP] qfe & hme interface

[Lee Khuong]

Hi All,

Since we are on this subject and Joe mention failover for redundancy. 
Has anybody tried to setup ipmp with local-mac-address=true and fail
over sucessfully with hme0 - hme1 in Solaris 8?

TIA,

Lee

"Fletcher, Joe" wrote:
> 
> Actually no but this is because the cards are being used for failover/fault
> tolerance purposes.
> The situation is that HME0 is the primary, if it fails traffic gets shifted
> to QFE0 and there's
> also heartbeat traffic between QFE3 and QFE7. The idea is that if we lose a
> whole QFE the failover keeps things going.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Les [mailto:les at cdproc.com]
> Sent: 8 March 2001 14:56
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [SunHELP] qfe & hme interface
> 
> I assume you have firmware set to local-mac-address?=true?
> If not each card will have to be on a segment of the network which
> does NOT see the other segments. (Same MAC addresses)
> Les
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fletcher, Joe" <joe.fletcher at metapack.com>
> To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2001 8:11 AM
> Subject: RE: [SunHELP] qfe & hme interface
> 
> > Yes it is. I've got E420Rs with the on-board HME and two QFEs working ok.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Conrad [mailto:tconrad at edisonschools.com]
> > Sent: 8 March 2001 13:56
> > To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> > Subject: [SunHELP] qfe & hme interface
> >
> >
> > I spent some time researching this yesterday, and looked through the
> > manuals and what not.
> >
> > Then I decided to live life on the edge, and actually try it out. But I
> > couldn't get it to work.
> >
> > The question is, is can you use a qfe card and the hme interface at the
> > same time, effectivly giving a box 5 interfaces?
> >
> > The box itself is an Ultra1. I've tried a few times, on a few different
> > boxes out there, and I just don't know if it's a configuration thing, or
> > what.
> >
> > Is this possible?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tim
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