SUMMARY: Solaris 7 virtual interfaces

From: Lukas Karrer (lkarrer@trash.net)
Date: Thu Feb 11 1999 - 04:16:00 CST


Hi,

In short, what was the problem:

I created virtual interfaces with /sbin/ifconfig hme0:1 195.216.69.86 up
as of solaris 2.6, the OS adds a route over each of the virtual interfaces.

With solaris 2.6, I ussued route delete 195.216.69.64 195.216.69.86 to
delete these routes. As of Solaris 7, the OS does no more accept this
(wrong) command, as it is false. it should be:

route delete net 195.216.69.64 195.216.69.86
            ^^^^^

Here some other hints:

sam.vilain@nz.unisys.com noted a better way to create virtual interfaces:

> a better way to set up the interfaces is by creating /etc/hostname.hme0:1,
> etc.)

>All traffic should go out from the hostname named by /etc/nodename, except
>connections initiated to the secondary interfaces, which is generally a Good
>Thing (tm). This is because a bind to the unspecified address, or making
>a new
>network socket always gives you the primary address of the host. An
>application
>has to specifically bind to the virtual interfaces to use that address.

"V. Q. Hoang" <vqh@dw.lucent.com> noted:

> Try
>
> ndd -set /dev/ip ip_enable_group_ifs 0
>
> this was something that started with 2.6, I'm not sure if it's
> still there with 2.7

Well, I could net get this to work....

Thanks to all who replied

Cheers

Lukas

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