On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > one implication of this is that, when this is in use, the NIC cannot be > part of a L2 aggregation (because the upstream switch will load-spread > some of the management traffic flows to other ports in the aggregation). > > And using it with other L2/L3 redundancy technologies (such as IPMP and > OSPF-MP) is going to be tricky (the shared management IP address must > not be seen as reachable via other NICs).
IMLU: These don't preclude use of AMT in normal operation - the OS can always redirect packets to AMT that didn't get hijacked. Does obviously preclude reliable Out-of-Band use of AMT. Indeed, I really wonder how the LOM firmware can know whether or not it needs to do ARP for a shared IP. regards, -- Paul Jakma, Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems, Scotland http://opensolaris.org/os/project/quagga tel: EMEA x73150 / +44 15066 73150
