On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Jeremy Charles <jchar...@epic.com> wrote: > One of our server admins is telling me that his Solaris server's IP > multipathing software is checking connectivity to the default gateway by > sending ICMP echo requests addressed to the following: > > > > MAC address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > IP address 0.0.0.0 > > > > He's telling me that the Solaris host is expecting to see the default > gateway respond to that. > > > > Does anyone else view this as one or more of the following: > > 1) The actual expected behavior of Solaris IP multipathing > > 2) Something isn't completely configured
I'm not familiar with Solaris multipathing, but from a protocol perspective I would have expected the IP target to have been 255.255.255.255 not 0.0.0.0. The 255.* address is the RFC official local network broadcast address. According the the RFCs I can find, the 0.* address should only be used as a source address for a packet (when a machine doesn't know it's local address yet). Is it possible that there is a misconfiguration somewhere? Bill Bogstad _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
