Hi.. Every one,

I have servers installed with solaris 10.We have configured our servers for IPMP and we have respective entries in /etc/hostname.<interface> for every physical interface.
for example one of the file contains :

# more /etc/hostname.ce6
super-ce6 netmask + broadcast + group accgrp deprecated -failover up addif super-dummy netmask + broadcast + deprecated up

Can any one explain me what these entries do...????

What is the purpose of " addif " and " -failover " also why two " up "
are used.

o/p of ifconfig -a :

# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
ce5: flags=9040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER> mtu 1500 index 3
inet 10.66.23.112 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 10.66.23.255
ether 0:14:4f:67:cb:d3
ce6: flags=9040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER> mtu 1500 index 4
inet 10.66.22.74 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 10.66.22.255
groupname accgrp
ether 0:14:4f:69:c2:c8
ce6:1: flags=1040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 4
inet 10.66.22.108 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 10.66.22.255
ce6:2: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 4
inet 10.66.22.64 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 10.66.22.255
ce10: flags=9040843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DEPRECATED,IPv4,NOFAILOVER> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 10.66.22.84 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 10.66.22.255
groupname accgrp
ether 0:14:4f:69:c2:e0


o/p of more /etc/hosts:

# more /etc/hosts
10.66.22.64 super loghost
10.66.22.74 super-ce6
10.66.22.84 super-ce10
10.66.22.108 super-dummy
10.66.23.112 super-ce5



Thanks in Advance.....