September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
432 pages
8h 53m
English
Content preview from Solaris™ 9 Network Administrator Exam Cram™ 2 (Exam CX-310-044)
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Chapter 5. IP Multipathing
Terms you'll need to understand:
/etc/default/mpathd file
/etc/release file
Fat Network Pipe
if_mpadm command
in.mpathd daemon
Internet Protocol MultiPathing (IPMP)
Multicast Group
Trunking
Trunking Policies
Concepts you'll need to master:
Explain the purpose, benefits, and limitations of multipathing.
Explain how to configure multipathing by using configuration files and command-line parameters.
Describe the purpose and limitations of trunking, and explain how the four supported trunking policies impact how trunking is implemented.
With the demand for greater bandwidth and higher availability increasing all the time, Sun provides two products that satisfy these demands: IP Multipathing (IPMP), which provides a failover detection ...