Networking considerations

Effects of a disabled routed daemon

Enabling the vFiler license causes Data ONTAP to disable the routed daemon.

For more information about the route command, see the na_route(1) man page.

Command for changing the routing table in the default IPspace

Because vFilers in the same IPspace share one routing table, you can manipulate the routing table by entering the route command from the hosting filer. The route command has the following syntax:

route [-fn] add|delete [ host|net ] destination [ gateway metric ]

You can include the command in the filer /etc/rc file. In this way, the routes are added automatically after each filer reboot.

Command for changing routing tables in nondefault IPspaces

For more information about manipulating routing tables in nondefault IPspaces, see Chapter 3, Using vFilers in Different IPspaces.

About the /etc/dgateways file

Only the hosting filer has the /etc/dgateways file. vFilers do not maintain their own /etc/dgateways file.

IPSec on vFilers

You can configure a vFiler as an Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) endpoint.

You can configure each vFiler separately with unique security configuration. When you migrate the vFiler from one hosting filer to another (or replicate it for disaster-recovery purposes), the IPSec configuration is preserved so long as the vFiler's IP address does not change.

For more information, see the Network Administration Guide and the na_ipsec man page.