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Adding Second nic in Solaris 10

I am tring to add a second nic in a T1000 running Solaris 10. After I add the nic with the config as follows:

bge0: flags=1000803<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 192.168.1.67 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 0:21:28:10:a3:d0
bge1: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 3
inet 192.168.1.68 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 0:21:28:10:a3:d1

Evrething works fine but if I unplug the first nic there is no trafic in the server.
why I can not use the second nic if I unplug the first one even if the second nic is pluged and is running?

Thank you

omarfarid

if you run

ifconfig -a

what do you get?

smurgu

ASKER

I post that in my question.
bge0: flags=1000803<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 192.168.1.67 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 0:21:28:10:a3:d0
bge1: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 3
inet 192.168.1.68 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether 0:21:28:10:a3:d1
The fist interface is not running because I unplug the cable to see if the second one is working when the fisrt one is down.

omarfarid

when you say unplug the first nic, do you mean the cable?

Also, why do you haveboth nics in the same subnet?

smurgu

ASKER

Yes I unplug the cable.

Its not my network, and I don't have any control over its configuration. I need to use the second nic in case the first one fails without IPMP or link aggregation.

omarfarid

can you show the output of

netstat -rn

smurgu

ASKER

Routing Table: IPv4
Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface
-------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ---------- ---------
default 192.168.1.161 UG 1 100
192.168.1.0 192.168.1.67 U 1 4 bge0
192.168.1.0 192.168.1.68 U 1 0 bge1
224.0.0.0 192.168.1.67 U 1 0 bge0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 4 117 lo0

omarfarid

OK, from the routing table, the network 192.168.1.0 is reachable through bge0 and bge1

If you shutdown the bge0 interface with

ifconfig bge0 down

do you still get the problem?

smurgu

ASKER

No if I put that interface down it works but I have to switches and each nic is plug in a diferent switch. I need to be able to send and receive trafic if one of the switch is down.

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smurgu

ASKER

can you give me an example of the script and also if you can tell me how this script will detect the link-failure. I know this is a diferent question than the original one let me know if I have to close this and open a new question.

Thank you,

omarfarid

Sorry that you closed the question before reaching a solution, but you can try to see if you can run snmp

and use

/usr/sfw/bin/snmpwalk

to get the interface status then try to do something.

Also you may try

/usr/sbin/ndd -get /dev/bge link_status

But I do not have two interfaces to test with and see what it return