druddle

Hi,

We are seeing a problem with inter server communication as follows:-

We have an FSC Primepower 1500 with 4 partitions. Each partition has 2 IPMP network interfaces set as follows:

Interface physical IP IPMP name
fjgi0 x.x.142.12 data1
fjgi2 x.x.142.14 data2
fjgi1 x.x.140.12 corp1
fjgi3 x.x.140.14 corp2

IPMP: fjgi0:1 x.x.142.13 databackup
fjgi1:1 x.x.140.13 corporate

Obviously we use unique IP addresses on each server, but the IPMP names are identical.

'ping' works fine and IPMP is proven when we remove cables

'ftp' hangs after the first few read() / write() ops and goes to sleep() when we try to use either the corporate or data IPMP interfaces, but works fine for the hme0 interface that is not an IPMP configuration.

Question:

Do the IPMP interface and group names need to be unique, or is this a complete red herring ?

Cant find any info to help.

Dave