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Oracle Solaris System Administration (MOSC)

Change MAC address of the default gateway

Oct 19, 2015 10:14AM edited Oct 22, 2015 11:55AM in Oracle Solaris System Administration (MOSC) 1 comment

Our Solaris 10 servers are connected in 15 VLANs to the network.

We plan to migrate to new network core switches.

The migration will be done VLAN per VLAN.

Because of new network Hardware, the MAC address of the

default gateway changes.

We must do this change without or with a very short (a few seconds)

interruption.

Is it advisable to reduce to a smaller value of the arp cache timeout

e.g. 20 seconds.

or

Write a script

- ping the default Gateway

- if e.g. five pings failes

- do a arp –d for the default gateway entry

If this works the connection interruption would be 5 seconds.

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