IPMP is something new i learnt in this project. To avoid single point of failure to your Public(& Virtual) IP/Private IP in a RAC environment you can Implement Multipathing of IP Address. In this configuration you configure a set of Network Inteface Cards (NIC's) on each cluster node to support an IP Address. Here is how it works

One of the NIC will be used as the Primary link for all communications. Upon failure of the Primary NIC, IPMP will automatically fail the physical(& virtual) IP to the standby NIC

Reference on Configuring IPMP
- Metalink Note on configuring IPMP 283107.1
- Using Multipathing in Solaris 10 Operating System
- Solaris 10 Sysadmin Guide on IPMP
Comments (2)
This link from the blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/muralins/ipmp
isn't working for me.
Posted by Chris Gait | September 5, 2007 1:20 PM
Posted on September 5, 2007 13:20
Sorry Chris, i am working on fixing the URLs basically the url will point to the same message article which is on the home page.
Posted by Murali | September 5, 2007 3:54 PM
Posted on September 5, 2007 15:54