Hi DukeNuke2. The - failover + failover in the config file should be ok. I had the Sun engineer take a look and he said it was fine. I'll ask him to double check it. The first -failover is for the test address which won't fail over. The second +failover is for the virtual address which will. I have implemented this on to three other servers with the exact same configuration and it has worked.
I have used if_mpadm to test the failover instead of unplugging the network cable. It worked with no problem. IPMP configuration aside, this failed interface problem has happened on a server I have without using IPMP.
We did a network test where the primary network was switched off. This server had one interface connected to that network. When the network was switched back on the interface on the Sun-Fire-V210 had a failed flag on it.
I couldn't get it working again so I plumbed a second interface and configured that. It only happened to that server. All the other servers were fine. Even unplumbing and plumbing the problem interface did not work. There has to be a hardware/software setting somewhere that prevents this from happening. Sun engineer so far has come back with nothing
Thanks.
Sparcman