Solaris Cluster Shows within Boot "PNM daemon system error: sppp0 SIOCGXARP failed.: No such device or address"

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Solution 1607613.1 : Solaris Cluster Shows within Boot "PNM daemon system error: sppp0 SIOCGXARP failed.: No such device or address"

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This document explains why when an OPL domain is booted in cluster mode  the following PNM daemon system error is logged:

Dec  4 10:39:10 node-1 Cluster.PNM: [ID 745275 daemon.error] PNM daemon system error: sppp0 SIOCGXARP failed.: No such device or address

Created from <SR 3-8223780681>

Applies to:

Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 Server - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 Server - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000-32 Server - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Solaris Cluster Geographic Edition - Version 3.3 to 4.3 [Release 3.3 to 4.3]
Solaris Cluster - Version 3.3 to 4.3 [Release 3.3 to 4.3]
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit)
Oracle Solaris on SPARC (32-bit)
Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit)
Oracle Solaris on x86 (32-bit)

Goal

This document explains why when an OPL domain is booted in cluster mode the following PNM daemon system error is logged:

Dec 4 10:39:10 node-1 Cluster.PNM: [ID 745275 daemon.error] PNM daemon system error: sppp0 SIOCGXARP failed.: No such device or address

Solution

The DSCP interface provides IP communication between the SP and the domain, this interface is called "sppp0" in the ifconfig -a output:

sppp0: flags=10010008d1<UP,POINTOPOINT,RUNNING,NOARP,MULTICAST,IPv4,FIXEDMTU> mtu 1500 index 8
inet 192.168.224.2 --> 192.168.224.1 netmask ffffff00
ether 0:0:0:0:0:0

The error "Cluster.PNM: PNM daemon system error: sppp0 SIOCGXARP failed: No such device or address" occurs because the arp entry matching the sppp0 interface is incomplete, as no MAC Adress is specified for this interface.

#arp -a
Net to Media Table: IPv4
Device IP Address Mask Flags Phys Addr
------ -------------------- --------------- -------- ---------------
...

bge0 10.166.1.1 255.255.255.255 00:21:28:a4:74:2f
sppp0 192.168.224.1 255.255.255.255 <========
...

When an ioctl call (SIOCGXARP) has been done to this interface and failed, the above message is logged but the boot continues as usual.
This message can't be stopped but it can be safely ignored.

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