Lofland bLOG

Port CE0 on the quad card (NIC) appears to be bad.

Even though the lights were all showing good link status on the card, the box was unpingable. When I put in the ticket with SUN on the NIC, the SUN tech was actually on site. He suggested moving the cable to another port on the same card. After he did this and I plumbed the port and assigned an address to it, connectivity was restored.

So the box is working now, but port CE0 is bad.

Here is how it looks now:

root@hostname: ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=1000849 mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
ce0: flags=11000802 mtu 1500 index 2
inet 192.168.1.78 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
groupname nicgroup
ether …
ce2: flags=1000843 mtu 1500 index 3
inet 192.168.1.78 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ether …

Please be aware that when the NIC is replaced, the network cable needs to be moved back to port CE0.

Also please be aware that if the box is rebooted before the NIC is replaced it will revert to using CE0. You will need to manually bring up CE2 again. There is no reason that I am aware of for the box to be rebooted before the NIC is replaced.

Here are the commands I used to bring up the IP on CE2:

ifconfig ce2 plumb
ifconfig ce2 192.168.1.78
ifconfig ce2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
ifconfig ce2 up
ifconfig ce0 down