Thanks loads to people who replied. Dragos Stoichitsecu, Pascal Grostabussiat, Angelo. I did suspect that just doing an ifconfig bge0 down was not quite a real test and angelo gave me the if_mpadm command which seems to have worked fine :- root@host# if_mpadm -d bge0 Nov 30 13:28:05 host in.mpathd[23009]: Successfully failed over from NIC bge0 to NIC bge1 Nov 30 13:28:05 host in.mpathd[23009]: [ID 832587 daemon.error] Successfully failed over from NIC bge0 to NIC bge1 root@host# ifconfig -a lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 bge0: flags=89040842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER,OFFLINE> mtu 1500 index 4 inet xxx.xxx.xxx.21 netmask ffffff00 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.255 groupname group1 ether 0:14:4f:4d:d2:ed bge1: flags=29040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER,STANDBY> mtu 1500 index 8 inet xxx.xxx.xxx.22 netmask ffffff00 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.255 groupname group1 ether 0:14:4f:4d:d2:ee bge1:1: flags=21000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,STANDBY> mtu 1500 index 8 inet xxx.xxx.xxx.20 netmask ffffff00 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.255 root@host# if_mpadm -r bge0 Nov 30 13:30:06 host in.mpathd[23009]: Successfully failed back to NIC bge0 root@host# ifconfig -a lo0: flags=1000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 bge0: flags=9040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER> mtu 1500 index 4 inet xxx.xxx.xxx.21 netmask ffffff00 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.255 groupname group1 ether 0:14:4f:4d:d2:ed bge0:1: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 4 inet xxx.xxx.xxx.20 netmask ffffff00 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.255 bge1: flags=69040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER,STANDBY,INACTIVE> mtu 1500 index 8 inet xxx.xxx.xxx.22 netmask ffffff00 broadcast xxx.xxx.xxx.255 groupname group1 ether 0:14:4f:4d:d2:ee _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Thu Nov 30 09:06:03 2006
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