I am having trouble parsing how to use the two NIC's (hme0 and hme1)
as primary and standby so that I burn as few IP's on a subnet as
possible.

/etc/hostname.hme0

dns02 netmask + broadcast + failover up \
group production


/etc/hostname.hme1
dns02s netmask + broadcast + deprecated -failover standby up \
group production

root@dns02 / # ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index
1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
hme0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500
index 2
inet xxx.xxx.241.53 netmask ffffff00 broadcast xxx.xxx.241.255
groupname production
ether 8:0:20:c2:15:6e
hme1: flags=69040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPR ECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER,STANDBY,INACTIVE>
mtu 1500 index 3
inet xxx.xxx.241.207 netmask ffffff00 broadcast
xxx.xxx.241.255
groupname production
ether 8:0:20:c2:15:6f

This all looked good, but when I killed the switchport that held hme0,
the primary IP just stayed dead... I waited 5 mins. When I brought the
switchport back online, it worked again.

Nick

You're almost there, but no cigar...

Here's what you have to do (theory):

- assign a probing address to each interface, and make them no failover
addresses
- assign a failover address to one of the interfaces (primary)

Practice (from the top of my herad, so don't expect it to work straigh
away):

/etc/hostname.hme0:
dns02prob1 netmask + broadcast + group ipmpgrp deprecated -failover up \
addif dns02 netmask + broadcast + failover up

/etc/hostname.hme1:
dns02prob2 netmask + broadcast + group ipmpgrp deprecated -f1ailover
standby up

Nick Ellson wrote:
> I am having trouble parsing how to use the two NIC's (hme0 and hme1)
> as primary and standby so that I burn as few IP's on a subnet as
> possible.
>
> /etc/hostname.hme0
>
> dns02 netmask + broadcast + failover up \
> group production
>
>
> /etc/hostname.hme1
> dns02s netmask + broadcast + deprecated -failover standby up \
> group production
>
> root@dns02 / # ifconfig -a
> lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index
> 1
> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
> hme0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500
> index 2
> inet xxx.xxx.241.53 netmask ffffff00 broadcast xxx.xxx.241.255
> groupname production
> ether 8:0:20:c2:15:6e
> hme1: flags=69040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPR ECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER,STANDBY,INACTIVE>
> mtu 1500 index 3
> inet xxx.xxx.241.207 netmask ffffff00 broadcast
> xxx.xxx.241.255
> groupname production
> ether 8:0:20:c2:15:6f
>
> This all looked good, but when I killed the switchport that held hme0,
> the primary IP just stayed dead... I waited 5 mins. When I brought the
> switchport back online, it worked again.
>
> Nick