IP-Transparent Mode Interface Configuration

Figure 4-1 IP-Transparent Configuration at London Site

In IP-transparent mode, the host running Solaris Bandwidth Manager sits between the traffic source (usually a LAN) and the router. On the host shown in Figure 4-1, you configure the qe1_out interface for Solaris Bandwidth Manager, giving le0 as the network device. For example:

interface   qe0_out
            rate          512000
            activate      enabled
            router_addr   123.xxx.yyy.1
            network       le0
            router_mac    809xxxxx
            multicast     all

In addition to the configuration shown above, you must configure a standard IP interface for the network interface to the LAN. This is necessary for the interface to be inserted into the IP stack at boot time. Create the file /etc/hostname.interfacename with a reference to the IP address of the interface.

Do not configure the network interface on the WAN side. Run ifconfig -a and check that there is no reference to this interface.