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To recover from a failing SP Switch Adapter card, you have to define an alias IP address for the surviving card. Follow these steps when gt030 fails:
1.Login as root to the SP Switch Router.
2.Remove the interface of gt030 from active status: ifconfig gt030 delete
3.Assign the alias IP address to gt050:
ifconfig gt050 alias 192.168.14.4 netmask 255.255.255.128
Follow these steps, when gt050 fails:
1.Login as root to SP Switch Router.
2.Remove the interface of gt050 from active status: ifconfig gt050 delete
3.Assign the alias IP address to gt030:
ifconfig gt030 alias 192.168.14.129 netmask 255.255.255.128
After setting the alias address, verify with the grarp command that the arp table shows the correct IP addresses and corresponding physical SP Switch addresses, for example:
grf16:/root grarp 192.168.14.129
???(0): 192.168.14.129 at 0:0:0:0:0:f
???(0): 192.168.14.4 at 0:0:0:0:0:f
Both IP addresses have to show the same physical SP Switch address.
5.3 Multiple SP Partition and Multiple SP Switch Router Adapter Cards
A partitioned RS/6000 SP has some advantages: It is possible to separate production and development systems that is, test new software in one partition without crashing the entire system when one partition crashes. Last but not least, several partitions can run several software versions that are incompatible with each other in one partition.
But one large disadvantage remains: There is no