Purpose of HAIP - can define multiple interface for redundant interconnect usage by classifying the interfaces as private either during installation or after using the oifcfg setif command.
With HAIP, by default, interconnect traffic is load balanced across all active interconnect interfaces, and corresponding HAIP address are failed over transparently to other adapters if one fails or becomes non-communicative.
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