You display the IP Interface information with ipmpstat - i Which two characteristics are indicated by characters that may be included in the FLAGS column?

Question

Options

• Adefault route
• BIP forwarding enabled
• Callocated to global zone
• Dunusable due to being inactive
• Enominated to send/receive IPv4 multicast for its IPMP group

• A
  3% (2)
• B
  6% (4)
• C
  2% (1)
• D
  89% (59)

Explanation

In Oracle Solaris IPMP, the ipmpstat -i FLAGS column uses single-character codes to represent interface states. The character i appears when an interface is inactive (making it unusable - option D), and m appears when an interface is nominated for multicast traffic on behalf of its IPMP group (option E). These two states are directly represented by flag characters in that specific column.

Options A (default route) and B (IP forwarding) are routing/forwarding concerns visible via netstat or ipadm, not tracked per-interface in IPMP's interface table. Option C (global zone allocation) is a zone/virtualization attribute surfaced through zone administration tools, not an IPMP interface flag.

Memory tip: Think "IM" - the two flag letters are I (inactive) and M (multicast). If an interface is going IM-mobile (inactive or multicast-nominated), you'll see it in the FLAGS column.

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