SEARCHSOLARIS.COM Administrator Tip ========================================== SPONSORED BY: PostMasterDirect.com ========================================== Get free offers from reputable merchants for products that you are interested in. Pick from over 50 categories of interest, modify your profile at any time to suit your needs, and receive only the email that interests you when you subscribe today. Just click on the following link and get your account up and running: http://searchsolaris.techtarget.com/postmasterDirect/ ========================================== "Increase network throughput & fault tolerance in Solaris 8 (HW 01/01) and beyond," by Ken Robson In the January hardware release of Solaris 8 Sun added a new feature to Solaris called IP Network Multipathing. This feature allows for the automatic fail-over of NICs and spreads outgoing connections over various NICs. To configure this extension it is necessary to add some additional parameters in /etc/hostname [interface identifier]. Once configured the in.mpathd pools the private addresses assigned to these cards to ascertain their availability and will migrate connections to other NICs in the physical interface group until the NIC becomes available again or is replaced. This technology cannot be used on interfaces that are being managed with alternate pathing but is useful in protecting yourself against the following problems: 1) NIC failure 2) Cable failure 3) Switch port failure As a bonus, the technology also overcomes the age-old problem when using round robin DNS records where only the first interface installed in a machine was used for return traffic. This was due to the fact that when packets where sent out form the machine they would use the first entry they found in the routing table which would usually be the first physically installed interface. For more information on setting up and configuring this feature please see: http://docs.sun.com/ab2/coll.709.2/IPNETMPADMIN/@Ab2TocView?Ab2Lang=C&Ab2Enc=iso-8859-1 ======================================== LEARNING ZONE FEATURED BOOK OF THE WEEK ======================================== "Designing and Programming CICS Applications," by John Horswill Each part of "Designing and Programming CICS Applications" addresses the design requirements for specific components and gives a step-by-step approach to developing a simple application. The book reviews the basic concepts of a business application and the way CICS meets these requirements. It then covers a wide range of application development technologies, including VisualAge for Java, WebSphere Studio, and Visual Basic. Users learn not only how to design and write their programs but also how to deploy their applications. http://www.digitalguru.com/dgstore/product.asp?isbn=1565926765&ac_id=68 ======================================== If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter simply reply to this message with "REMOVE" in the subject line. Or, visit http://searchSolaris.techtarget.com/register and adjust your subscriptions accordingly. If you choose to unsubscribe using our automated processing, you must send the "REMOVE" request from the email account to which this newsletter was delivered. Please allow 24 hours for your "REMOVE" request to be processed.
