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IP multipathing on Solaris 10 with Hanic (NIC Redundancy with one IP)
Hanic ?
Do you know what’s that.
Yes, Hanic is NIC Redundancy with one IP, hanic was made by “Partha Subramanian”, and based on perl, hanic more simply and powerfull than IPMP, the default solaris IP multipathing. Why hanic was simply, in hanic we unnecessary to defined all requirement for respective NIC , just install, run and ready to failover.
Bellow, this is the step by step for hanic used.
1. First of all, we must got the hanic source as usually
bash> wget http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/scripts/submittedScripts/hanic.tar.gz
2. Show your NIC for me
bash> ifconfig e1000g0 plumb bash> ifconifg e1000g1 plumb
bash> vi /etc/hosts 192.168.85.3 training.bascomp.org training
3. Install hanic on your system
bash> gunzip hanic.tar.gz|tar xvf - bash> cd hanic bash> chmod +x * bash> ./hanic.install
As usually software installation you must follow the guide, something like this.
Define your primary and secondary NIC, type your IP Address, your netmask and then reboot your system, for completed the installation.
bash> init 6