09-06-2019
I have read your post#1 countless times and I must confess that I am at a loss to understand your question. Sorry about that I cannot give you a specific answer as a result.
So what I will do is bash some keys a provide some general network interface information as it pertains to Solaris 9. I apologize if you already know all this but we have to start somewhere. This might be a long post before I'm finished, I don't know, it's just going to be as it comes (into my head).
Why are you seemingly just plumbing missing IP addresses that you can't ping onto another system? With IPMP the same IP address is aggregated across two or more NICs (on the same machine).
If you want to configure IPMP you would do that BEFORE you 'plumb'. For example if you have interfaces bge0 and bge1, you would create an aggregate interface 'aggr1' for example and after that you would plumb and configure only aggr1. You would not try to configure bge0 and bge1 individually any more.
Now Solaris 9 will look for files /etc/hostname.<interface> at boot time and try to plumb those interfaces. If this system was restored from a different hardware platform, then you might for example have a file /etc/hostname.ce0 existing causing Solaris to try to plumb ce0 at boot-time when ce0 doesn't actually exist on this hardware. To stop Solaris from trying to plumb ce0 simply delete the /etc/hostname.ceo file.
When Solaris finds a file /etc/hostname.<interface> at boot-time, it reads the hostname from this file and then (assuming the interface is not configured for DHCP of course) goes to /etc/hosts and looks up the IP address it should use on this interface.
If you aggregate bge0 and bge1 into aggr1, then a file /etc/hostname.aggr1 is created which Solaris will try to plumb at boot-time.
Now, you are trying to get a FAIL message for ce0 to disappear, yes? I can think of only two possibilities why a system would complain about ce0 FAIL:
1. File /etc/hostname.ce0 exists but actual interface ce0 does not exist on this hardware. Delete the file.
2. The interface ce0 does not exist on this platform but is included in an aggregate IPMP configuration that has been restored from a different hardware platform. Down the aggregate interface and delete the IPMP configuration, then recreate the aggregate with interfaces that do exist on this platform and exclude ce0 which doesn't.
Aggregating interfaces has nothing to do with other systems on the LAN. Provided the network cables from the aggregated interfaces go to network switch(es) that understand multi-pathing then all should be well.
I'm going to stop there. If I've completely misunderstood your question then please give us a clue what this is about please.
Hope that helps in some way.
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS
sppptun
sppptun(1M) System Administration Commands sppptun(1M)
NAME
sppptun - PPP tunneling driver utility
SYNOPSIS
sppptun plumb
sppptun plumb protocol device
sppptun unplumb interface
sppptun query
DESCRIPTION
The sppptun utility is used to configure and query the Solaris PPP tunneling device driver, /dev/sppptun. Currently, only PPP over Ether-
net (PPPoE) is supported, so the plumb and unplumb arguments are used to specify Ethernet interfaces that are to be used for PPPoE, and the
query option lists the plumbed interfaces.
The use of sppptun to add interfaces is similar to the use of ifconfig(1M) to add interfaces to IP. The plumbing is done once for each
interface, preferably at system start-up time, and is not normally manipulated on a running system. If multiple instances of PPP are run
over a single interface, they share the plumbing to that interface. Plumbing for each session is not required (and not possible for PPPoE).
The proper way to plumb interfaces for PPPoE is to list the interfaces, one per line, in the /etc/ppp/pppoe.if file.
USAGE
sppptun plumb
When specified with no additional arguments, the plumb argument lists the protocols that are supported by the utility. These are the
strings that are used as the protocol argument below.
sppptun plumb protocol device
This plumbs a new interface into the driver. The protocol parameter is pppoe for the PPP-carrying "Session Stage" connection or pppoed
for the PPPoE "Discovery Stage" connection. Both connections must be present for each Ethernet interface that is to be used for PPPoE.
The device parameter is the path name of the Ethernet interface to use (use ifconfig(1M) to list available devices). If the path begins
with /dev/, then this portion may be omitted.
sppptun unplumb interface
This removes an existing interface from the driver and terminates any PPP sessions that were using the interface. The interface parame-
ter is the name of the interface as reported when the interface was plumbed.
sppptun query
Displays the canonical names of all interfaces plumbed into the /dev/sppptun device driver.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Setting up to Use PPPoE on hme0
Plumb the hme0 interface.
# sppptun plumb pppoed hme0
hme0:pppoed
# sppptun plumb pppoe hme0
hme0:pppoe
Remove the hme0 interface.
# sppptun unplumb hme0:pppoed
# sppptun unplumb hme0:pppoe
Example 2: Script to Remove All Plumbed Interfaces
#!/bin/sh
for intf in `sppptun query`
do
sppptun unplumb $intf
done
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
1 One or more errors occurred.
FILES
/etc/ppp/pppoe.if list of Ethernet interfaces to be plumbed at boot time
/usr/sbin/sppptun executable command
/dev/sppptun Solaris PPP tunneling device driver
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWpppdt |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
pppd(1M), pppoec(1M), pppoed(1M), sppptun(7M)
RFC 2516, Method for Transmitting PPP Over Ethernet (PPPoE), Mamakos et al, February 1999
SunOS 5.10 19 Mar 2001 sppptun(1M)