APA config

[Dave Campbell_6]

Trying to configure APA B.11.11.07 on a dome partition across 2 devices - see below:

Hardware Station Crd Hdw Net-Interface NM MAC HP-DLPI DLPI
Path Address In# State NamePPA ID Type Support Mjr#
1/0/3/1/1 0x0012799EAB9B 9 UP lan9 snap9 8 ETHER Yes 119

Extended Station LLC Encapsulation
Address Methods
0x0012799EAB9B IEEE HPEXTIEEE SNAP ETHER NOVELL

Driver Specific Information
iether

Hardware Station Crd Hdw Net-Interface NM MAC HP-DLPI DLPI
Path Address In# State NamePPA ID Type Support Mjr#
1/0/9/1/0 0x001185AF15E0 4 UP lan4 snap4 10 ETHER Yes 119

Extended Station LLC Encapsulation
Address Methods
0x001185AF15E0 IEEE HPEXTIEEE SNAP ETHER NOVELL

Driver Specific Information
igelan

And I get the error:

ERROR: APA could not set LM Configuration for Fail-Over Group lan900. APA errno = 219.
ERROR: Creating Fail-Over Group failed lan900
Exiting: Error applying all of input file /etc/lanmon/lanconfig.ascii.
ERROR: lanapplyconf failed

Is there any known issues between these types of cards stopping this config from working. I have applied what I believe to be the required patches for the version of APA running. So I'm at a loss to figure out why this won't work

Thanks.

[Alzhy]

Yes. It is possible (although am not 100% sure) that the card driver differences is your problem. One is iether, the other is igelan.

Have you confirmed from HP if this is indeed the case?

[Xianjie Zhang]

No. There is no known issue to put iether and igelan card in the same failover group.
The errno means "there are some protocols bound on the secondary port". Can you check if IP addresses are configured on both ports? Only the primary port can (must) have IP address configured.
Sometimes, other appications (e.g., rbootd) can bind protocols other than IP on the secondary port, that also will cause a failure.

Can you post "/etc/rc.config.d/lanmon/lanconfig.ascii" and "/etc/rc.config.d/netconf" files?

Thanks and regards,

Xianjie

[Todd Whitcher]

Hi Dave,

We see that type of message when IP is active on the interface.

Try a "ifconfig lanX unplumb" for the interface that is going to be your standby.

Also, make sure you dont have any multicast address on the card via "netstat -gn" the 224.0.0.1's are o.k. just make sure you don't have an another multi-cast address. I've had that bite me before.

Hope that helps

Todd