Sure but the multicast packets on the primary (public) interface (ce0) seem
to be duplicated by the solaris ip stack while they are not duplicated on
the second dedicated interface of the sunray interconnect (ce1). I would
expect the SRS multicast packets to be heartbeats and single messages at
regular intervals and not being duplicated on the same interface each time
one is sent on the primary interface. The main issue is that this behavior
seems to be causing our switch to drop unicast traffic regularly after
multicast messages are sent on the primary interface. This may be a bug in
the switch but why should the SRS software send two consecutive multicast
messages containing identical data and with nearly identical  timestamps
while it only sends single multicast messages on the second interface as
expected ?

Snoop traffic on ce0:
________________________________
 38   0.56873 sr1-ce0 -> 224.101.101.101 ETHER Type=0800 (IP), size = 367
bytes
 38   0.56873 sr1-ce0 -> 224.101.101.101 IP  D=224.101.101.101 S=xxx
LEN=353, ID=5658, TOS=0x0, TTL=1
 38   0.56873 sr1-ce0 -> 224.101.101.101 UDP D=7009 S=7009 LEN=333
________________________________
 39   0.00033 sr1-ce0 -> 224.101.101.101 ETHER Type=0800 (IP), size = 367
bytes
 39   0.00033 sr1-ce0 -> 224.101.101.101 IP  D=224.101.101.101 S=xxx
LEN=353, ID=5658, TOS=0x0, TTL=1
 39   0.00033 sr1-ce0 -> 224.101.101.101 UDP D=7009 S=7009 LEN=333

Snoop traffic on ce1:

7   0.42615 sr1-ce1 -> 224.101.101.101 ETHER Type=0800 (IP), size = 367
bytes
7   0.42615 sr1-ce1 -> 224.101.101.101 IP  D=224.101.101.101 S=172.16.128.7
LEN=353, ID=59077, TOS=0x0, TTL=1
7   0.42615 sr1-ce1 -> 224.101.101.101 UDP D=7009 S=7009 LEN=333

Could you try to snoop for multicast messages on your primary interface to
see if you are getting the same behavior as me ? 

Thanks

Thierry.

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Sent: 05 September 2008 18:32
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Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] multicasting problems with sunray software
andsolaris

On 09/05/08 10:25, Thierry Delaitre wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  
> 
> I have some multicasting issues with the HP switch we are using. When 
> one of the 2 sunray server in the failover load-balanced group is 
> sending a multicast message, then the switch is dropping unicast packets 
> to that host for 10/20 seconds L Disabling IGMP solves the problem but 
> it is not really ideal.
> 
>  
> 
> When we are using wireshark or snoop on the solaris 10 05/08 (with SRS4) 
>  sunray server, we can observe that Solaris is duplicating the sunray 
> multicast messages on the primary public interface!! Is this normal ? 
> This strange behavior could be triggering a bug on our HP switch.

The Sun Ray server software sends multicast heartbeat packets on all of 
the real interfaces on the host. It's how it discovers the connectivity 
of the servers.

Kent
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