On 7 Sep 2009, at 11:09pm, Matt wrote:
I want to bond together both interfaces on my dom0 using IPMP to
provide a redundant path. Is this supported?
Yes.
Your terminology is somewhat mixed, though. 'Bond' usually refers to
802.3ad link aggregation, where multiple ethernet links are bonded
together to look like one link. This requires support (and
configuration) on the switch to which your machine is connected. It's
a layer 2 technology. In Solaris you'd do this with 'dladm' and the
result would be a new datalink interface called (say) aggr0. You'd
then specify aggr0 as the 'bridge' device to be used by your guest
domains.
IPMP is a Solaris specific approach which allows IP to use multiple
network interfaces in groups. In current OpenSolaris this ends up
looking quite a bit like link aggregation (there's an ipmp0 (say) IP
interface created to represent the group), but it's purely a layer 3
construct. You cannot use the resulting IP interfaces as the 'bridge'
device for guest domains. You can have dom0 use IPMP groups for its'
own traffic and guest domains can continue to use the underlying
physical devices.
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