topic Re: NIC Problem in Operating System - HP-UX

NIC Problem

George O'Reilly — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:39:08 GMT

Due to a network card failure I recently had to connect to a spare card. I configured the ip addresses and speed and all works ok.

However there are two issues.

1) The configuration does not survive a reboot.
2) The linkloop comes up with an error even thought the card is clearly working.

I am on hpux 11i.
lanscan shows
# lanscan
Hardware Station Crd Hdw Net-Interface NM MAC HP-DLPI DLPI
Path Address In# State NamePPA ID Type Support Mjr#
0/0/0/0 0x00306E2CF49A 0 UP lan0 snap0 1 ETHER Yes 119
0/8/0/0/4/0 0x00306E4622EC 1 UP lan1 snap1 2 ETHER Yes 119
0/8/0/0/5/0 0x00306E4622ED 2 UP lan2 snap2 3 ETHER Yes 119
0/8/0/0/6/0 0x00306E4622EE 3 UP lan3 snap3 4 ETHER Yes 119
0/8/0/0/7/0 0x00306E4622EF 4 UP lan4 snap4 5 ETHER Yes 119
0/9/0/0/4/0 0x00306E46E410 5 UP lan5 snap5 6 ETHER Yes 119
0/9/0/0/5/0 0x00306E46E411 6 UP lan6 snap6 7 ETHER Yes 119
0/9/0/0/6/0 0x00306E46E412 7 UP lan7 snap7 8 ETHER Yes 119
0/9/0/0/7/0 0x00306E46E413 8 UP lan8 snap8 9 ETHER Yes 119

I have moved from the 0/8/ card to the 0/9 card.

# linkloop 0x00306E46E412 (I am using lan7)
Link connectivity to LAN station: 0x00306E46E412
error: expected primitive 0x30, got DL_ERROR_ACK
dl_error_primitive = 0x2d
dl_errno = 0x04
dl_unix_errno = 57
error - did not receive data part of message

I am not familiar with NICs but I am obviously missing a piece of the puzzle.

Many Thanks
George

Re: NIC Problem

Suraj K Sankari — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:43:42 GMT

Hi,

Please let me know how you configure your ip address into spare card.

use set_parms or sam to change the ip address

Suraj

Re: NIC Problem

Steven E. Protter — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:44:11 GMT

Shalom,

NIC configuration is stored in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf

You can also make major changes permanent with setparms command. Run the command and it will provide you options.

SEP

Re: NIC Problem

Ganesan R — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:49:29 GMT

Hi,

>>>The configuration does not survive a reboot<<<

Means configuration not updated in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file to make it permanent. Either update the file manually or use SAM to configure it. SAM will automatically update the file for you.

If linkloop command gives error like above, it indicates there is no cable connectled to it. But I could see the syntax error in linkloop command. Use below format.

#linkloop -i 7 0x00306E46E412

Re: NIC Problem

George O'Reilly — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:56:29 GMT

Thanks a million for the replies.

The netconf and the '-i' on the linkloop were the answers.

George