A Certain Measure of EnthusiasmMatt Briggs' WeblogIPMP and different interface types- June 14, 2004 An engineer at a Sun partner (an integrator) asked me today whether IPMP (IP Multipathing) could be used on a pair of interfaces that were not the same type. For example, say you have a V880 with a fibre-based gigabit interface (ge0) and a 100baseT interface (eri0) and wish to use them in a failover pair. Sun Cluster uses a concept called NAFO for network adapter failover resources; this in turn is based on IPMP. The Sun Cluster docs have some very specific guidelines: Sun Cluster 3.0...http://blogs.sun.com/kpbong/entry/ipmp_and_different_interface_types fork() going away- June 11, 2004 A friend of mine spotted something interesting here: Features That Might Be Removed From a Future Release of the Solaris Operating System ... fork() Function and was a bit alarmed. fork() is pretty important, right Solaris wouldn't be UNIX without it! Well, I did a little searching and found something on the Solaris 10 dashboard (an internal page used to track feature enhancements going into the next version of Solaris) that contained the following: Consistent Fork Reverse the...http://blogs.sun.com/kpbong/entry/fork_going_away |