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From: Cydrome Leader <prese...@MUNGEpanix.com>
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Subject: Re: Utility to SMF a new demon/service ?
Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2012 05:34:51 +0000 (UTC)
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Jim Leonard <mobyga...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 3, 9:57?pm, Cydrome Leader <prese...@MUNGEpanix.com> wrote:
>> IPMP is complete garbage is the problem with IPMP.
> 
> What are your preferred alternatives?

LACP.

It's a standard and it's non-retarded as it wasn't concocted by sun.

dladm create-aggr

will get you started with it. 

We ran IPMP for a while. that just resulted in stuff being broken all the 
time, and lots of reboots to unwedge botched up links. Even on the older 
sparc machines (that I believe don't support LACP) IPMP always caused more 
problems than it solved. It always errored out more often than ethernet 
cables failed, NICs broke or ports on a cisco switch blew out.

After using LACP on the same machines, we forgot about all ever losing 
links to machines. your switches need to support it, but any real switch 
does, so that's not a problem.

IPMP is as jenky as those old putty colored metal boxes for switching 
parallel ports between computers and printers.