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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articlesavailable from Wikipedia or other free sources online. IPMP, or IPnetwork multipathing, is a facility provided by Solaris to providefault-tolerance and load spreading for network interface cards (NICs).With IPMP, two or more NICs are dedicated for each network to which thehost connects. Each interface is assigned a static 'test' IP addresswhich is used to assess the operational state of the interface. Eachvirtual IP address is assigned to an interface, though there may be moreinterfaces than virtual IP addresses, some of the interfaces beingpurely for standby purposes. When the failure of an interface isdetected its virtual IP addresses are swapped to an operationalinterface in the group.The IPMP load spreading feature increases themachine's bandwidth by spreading the outbound load between all the cardsin the same IPMP group. in.mpathd is the daemon in the Solaris OSresponsible for IPMP functionality.…