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Odd route appears after reboot, Solaris 10 (x4500 series)

Odd route appears after reboot, Solaris 10 (x4500 series)

Odd route appears after reboot, Solaris 10 (x4500 series)

(OP)
We have a point-to-point fiber that connects two thumpers across site which is used for replication of data.   Normally this is just a matter of two interfaces, no route and no problem.   However, on this system (Solaris 10), when the system reboots, we end up with a route that completely shuts down other traffic.  IE:

10.0.0.0   10.111.233.3

Where on other interfaces we use the same IP space like:

10.1.3.4

(ie: 10/8)

It's easy to manually delete the route, our /etc/defaultrouter is correctly set to the primary interface.   

I'm more of a Linux person, but I'm wondering if we need to add a persistent route entry for that specific /24 that is not related to our internal networks?

I also noticed, and this may be a side effect of the above, the interfaces are not automatically coming up at boot (ie: ifconfig <interface> up, resolves it).    I think it's due to the mishap route.

Any tips would be appreciated.  


Thanks.
 

RE: Odd route appears after reboot, Solaris 10 (x4500 series)

What do you have in /etc/networks (or is it /etc/inet/networks?) for the network in question?  Is it the same on both servers?

Annihilannic
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RE: Odd route appears after reboot, Solaris 10 (x4500 series)

(OP)
/etc/networks is a symlink to /etc/inet/networks smile   Ours is just a standard, there is nothing referencing any other networks there.

Should there be?   I read through the manpage, it wasn't clear.

 

RE: Odd route appears after reboot, Solaris 10 (x4500 series)

Perhaps I'm thinking of netmasks rather than networks.

I'll have a dig around on my Solaris VM when I get a chance.

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RE: Odd route appears after reboot, Solaris 10 (x4500 series)

(OP)
Had another issue similar to this, on the secondary system -- the netmask was changed to a /8 (255.0.0.0) when it should be 255.255.255.0 -- this is probably in response to the first system.

This is really p**sing me off.  Our Linux systems just run, they don't misbehave like Solaris.   I can't figure out out to statically set these so they won't be mucked with.

Did you find anything?


Thanks!
 

RE: Odd route appears after reboot, Solaris 10 (x4500 series)

Just had a quick look, /etc/inet/netmasks is the file I was thinking of; what does it contain on your systems?

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RE: Odd route appears after reboot, Solaris 10 (x4500 series)

(OP)
/etc/netmasks is symlinked to /etc/inet/netmasks, and we have:

10.250.0.0      255.255.255.0
10.251.0.0      255.255.255.0
10.245.137.0    255.255.255.0

So you can see, when Solaris puts in a 10/8 route for the last network, it shuts everything else down.


Thanks.


 

RE: Odd route appears after reboot, Solaris 10 (x4500 series)

(OP)
Again this only happens after the system reboots.   The correct route we have for the point to point config is:

Routing Table: IPv4
  Destination           Gateway           Flags  Ref     Use     Interface
-------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ---------- ---------
default              10.250.0.1           UG        1       4669           
10.245.137.0         10.245.137.20        U         1        612 e1000g2  

I'm not sure why Solaris won't keep this information --- where can I place this so that it stays static?
 

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