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Description: A quick howto on setting up IPMP
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Created: 08/03/06 pjf
Revised: 05/10/07 pjf - Added more notes and examples
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Note A: Make sure you have the netmasks defined in /etc/netmasks.
Note B: Following example uses "standby" for the second interface
Note C: Make sure "local-mac-address?=true" can use "eeprom local-mac-address?=true" to set
Note D: Requires a "test" ip address for each nic interface in the ipmp group

1. Put the following in your first hostname file (e.g., /etc/hostname.bge0)

   <1st test IP hostname or address> group mygroup deprecated -failover up
   addif <logical hostname> up

2. Put the following in your second hostname file of the IPMP group (e.g., /etc/hostname.bge1)

   <2nd test IP hostname or address> group mygroup deprecated standby -failover up


Exmaple:

# cat /etc/hostname.ipge0
host-t1 group extgrp deprecated -failover up
addif host up

# cat /etc/hostname.ipge1
host-t2 group extgrp deprecated standby -failover up


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