IP-Transparent Mode

If you are using Solaris Bandwidth Manager in IP-Transparent mode, you must specify the router_addr, network, and router_mac keywords.

• router_address is the list of IP addresses (or the hostname) of the router. If you specify more than one address, separate them with a comma.

• network_device is the name of the device connected to the LAN.

• router_mac is the MAC address of the router. This can be expressed in the standard hexadecimal format or as a hostname referenced in the ethers table.

The following parameters are optional in IP-Transparent mode:

• multicast defines how multicast packets are forwarded:

  • none indicates that no multicast packets are forwarded.

  • all indicates that all multicast packets are forwarded through ipqos (unless the time-to-live is less than 2 or the packets are local subnet traffic with destination addresses in the range 224.0.0.0 to 224.0.0.255, in which case they go directly to the router).

  • direct indicates that all multicast packets are forwarded directly, not though ipqos.

  See "Multicast Routing and Solaris Bandwidth Manager" for more information about how Solaris Bandwidth Manager handles multicast traffic.

• nonip_mode defines how non-IP packets are forwarded:

  • ipqos indicates that all non-IP packets are classified and scheduled.

  • direct indicates that all non-IP packets are forwarded directly, not through ipqos. These packets are not logged in the statistics.