brocade 4/24 c-class switch IP interface hung

[Kermit Dubois]

I have a c-7000 enclosure with two fiber channel switches. I cannot telnet into one of them, but can hyperterminal into it via serial interface on the OA. I can watch the hyperterminal screen while it reboots and it says it has a valid IP address that was set with EBIPA. I cannot ping it and it cannot ping anything else. I am not sure, but I think it may have gotten messed up when we were trying a firmware upgrade, it currently is at 5.3.0a. IT looks like all commands other than those that use TCP/IP work. I have swapped the two sitches, and the failure follows the switch rather than staying with the bay. The onaboard administrator is at v2.32. Thanks for any help

[Uwe Zessin]

Then I would check the EBIPA settings or test with an explicit address. When I've played with EBIPA some time ago, the IP address was not renewed immediately when I plugged a device into a new bay. Maybe that is the reason why the problem appeared to move with the switch.

[AWilliams_1 · Accepted solution]

Have you tried setting the switch manually to an IP address, is from the serial console. If you can get it communicating on a manually set IP then upgrade the firmware to at least 5.3.0d then set the switch to DHCP and reapply the EBIPA.

[Kermit Dubois]

Thanks for the responses. The fix was to use the ipaddrset command via the serial interface, I did not change any of the settings, but it forced the web services to restart and that did the trick, thanks to those that responded.

[Kermit Dubois]

Fix was ipaddrset via serial interface, that reset web services and I was able to telnet again.