PRIMECLUSTER Global Link Services Configuration and Administration Guide: Redundant Line Control Function 4.1 (for Solaris(TM) Operating System)

3.2.2.3 System setup in RIP mode

• After configuring a GLS environment, hostname information on a host database (such as /etc/inet/hosts file) should not be modified, if it has been used for GLS. To change the information on the host database, it is necessary to delete the GLS configuration first, and configure it again after modifying the hostname information.
• As for configuring physical interface, be sure to define to use in TCP/IP before defining a virtual interface. (Check whether or not an /etc/hostname.interface file exists. If not, create it and reboot the system.)
• Set to activate a routing daemon because it is necessary to change the route information dynamically. If you are using Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 as a basic OS, you must not create the "/etc/defaultrouter" or "/etc/notrouter" file. Check whether the files exit, and if they do, change the file name or delete them. If you are using Solaris 10 for a basic OS, use the "routeadm(1M)" command to set up a routing daemon.

Routing daemon setup (Solaris 10 only):
# routeadm -e ipv4-forwarding
# routeadm -e ipv4-routing
# routeadm -s ipv4-routing-daemon="/usr/sbin/in.routed"
# routeadm -s ipv4-routing-daemon-args="-s"
# routeadm
              Configuration   Current              Current
                     Option   Configuration        System State
---------------------------------------------------------------
            IPv4 forwarding   enabled              disabled
               IPv4 routing   enabled              disabled
            IPv6 forwarding   disabled             disabled
               IPv6 routing   disabled             disabled

        IPv4 routing daemon   "/usr/sbin/in.routed"
   IPv4 routing daemon args   "-s"
   IPv4 routing daemon stop   "kill -TERM `cat /var/tmp/in.routed.pid`"
        IPv6 routing daemon   "/usr/lib/inet/in.ripngd"
   IPv6 routing daemon args   "-s"
   IPv6 routing daemon stop   "kill -TERM `cat /var/tmp/in.ripngd.pid`"
# routeadm -u

• For Redundant Line Control function, the path information must be initialized and the routing daemon must be restarted. If path information is statically specified, the static paths must be described in /etc/gateways.
• Because this mode uses dynamic routing by RIP, do not start RDISC (search protocol for ICMP router) during system startup. In order to restrain RDISC from starting, rename /usr/sbin/in.rdisc then reboot the system.