Chuck Cox writes:
> As someone who has used IPMP extensively in Sun's internal datacenters and 
> seen 
> some interesting failure modes, I would like to throw out one big suggestion:
> 
> Please give sysadmins the ability to specify probe targets explicitly in
> /etc/default/mpathd (or some other appropriate config file).

A big +1 on that.  I think the way IPMP is using the kernel forwarding
table is a kludge.

The only question was whether we could make a particular known failure
mode in the existing system work better without going for (or in
addition to going for) the big solution.

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