Hi,
You just need to remember that the rc file is just a batch file. All you need to do is add valid commands in the correct logical order.
You might start out initializing your interfaces first. The media option isn't really necessary. I'm not sure how the flow controll "send" recommendation crept into best practices, but setting it to "full" never caused me any problems because it is a matter of negotiation with the switch anyway. I don't have a lot of setups where flow control actually is used on a regular basis.
This just seems confused and it seems you don't know what the commands are supposed to do:
ifconfig e0b `hostname`-e0a 10.254.114.7 netmask 255.255.0.0 mtusize 1500 trusted -wins up <--- This is already in the vif and can't work
ifconfig e0c `hostname`-e0b mediatype auto flowcontrol send <---- You can't and don't need to assign IP's to interfaces already in a vif
ifconfig e0d `hostname`-e0c mediatype auto flowcontrol send <----
ifconfig e0e `hostname`-e0d mediatype auto flowcontrol send <----
The "hostname" in backticks is doing a hostname lookup (it looks in /etc/hosts for isnldnn07-e0N ) to get an IP to be assigned to the interface, which you don't need. You shouldn't be trying to assign IP addresses to interfaces which are already in a vif. Just run
ifconfig e0b flowcontrol send mtu 9000 <--- for whichever interfaces you want in your vif with mtu 9000
After you set some basics on your interfaces, create the vif:
vif create vif0a e0b e0c e0d <--- It really seems like you can't decide which interfaces are supposed to be in this vif. It seems like you just edited "e0a" to be "vif0a". You can call a vif interface whatever you want up to a certain length.
This is broken too:
ifconfig vif0a `hostname`-vif0a 10.254.114.8 netmask 255.255.0.0 mtusize 9000 trusted up
Again, you don't need the `hostname` part if you already have the IP there (that is a pretty big netmask too, by the way 65k hosts in your net?). You really need to decide which interfaces are going to be in the vif and concentrate on getting the rc file exactly right.
The "routed on" is probably not needed in 99% of cases, especially if you only have one gateway and no RIP services in your net. If you are running a cluster (HA) setup it gets disabled anyway. You can normally safely just leave this out. More often than not, it just causes strange problems in nets with crappy old RIP services running.
There is a lot of brokeness here. I'd like to hand out reading glasses to some of the others that have looked at this...
If you don't understand something, feel free to ask. Just remember: setup the basic interfaces, create the vif, create any possible vlans, assign your IP's to the necessary "logical" interfaces, setup your default route, done.
S.
