Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hi Everyone,

I created a WPAR on my AIX 6.1 box. But after assigning a static ip to wpar. I can access WPAR by global environment server. But was unable to access it through local machine through ssh separately.
Now question arises is can WPAR be accessed separately through network.
If yes, please let me know the procedure.
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Originally posted by: bassemir

Yes WPARs are assessable from the network. Can the static IP address you assigned to the WPAR be resolved by the DNS to a hostname? Is the static IP address you used on the subnet the global system is connected to?

When I create a WPAR, a very basic WPAR with no fancy extra r/w file systems I will run the command:

mkwpar -n mywpar

I include an entry in my /etc/hosts file that resolves "mywpar" to an IP address on the subnet I have my system attached. I added "mywpar" to the /etc/hosts file because the local DNS will not resolve "mywpar" to an IP address.

Naturally any other system I use to talk to the wpar has to be able to resolv "mywpar" if the IP address is not used.
Rich
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

Hey,
Don't know why for some reasons I was getting this error while assigning network interface to my wpar.
ERROR
chwpar: 0960-111 network.interface = en1 must refer to an active global network interface.
en1 not found in ( en0 ).

But somehow got resolved and tried couple of times.
Anyways thanks
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Originally posted by: nagger

You should be making your WPAR with network parameters like:

mkwpar -n fred -h bloggs -N interface=en0 netmask=255.255.255.0 address=1.2.3.4 -r

And arranging with DNS for the host "bloggs" to map to the address 1.2.3.4
The -r is important too.

thanks Nigel
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