Can't get network connectivity on lan card

[Terrence]

I have two identical rp4440's that I'm setting up in a service guard cluster. I'm having the exact same problem on both servers. The nic that will be the production standby refuses to work. It's connected to the exact same switch and exact same vlan as the working production nic. We've confirmed that the patch cords and switchport are working just fine. (We can get connectivity on the correct subnet using them with a laptop.)

ioscan shows them as claimed and lanscan shows them as up. lanadmin shows the administration status as up, but the operation status as down.

The only difference I can see between this nic card setup and other rp4440's I have is that in SAM the failover nics that are working on other servers show as Autonegotiate and these are showing as 100 full. When I try and change it to Auto, it won't let me unless I add an ip which I don't want to.

I get no connection lights on either the card or switch, nor does linkloop report any connectivity at layer 2.

Any ideas?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You need to check the setting on the switchports and well as the NIC's. Auto-negotiation only works if BOTH ends of the connection are set to auto-negotiate. You must match the settings of both the NIC and its corresponding switch ports; set them both to 100FD, auto, or whatever but both must be identical. SAM is a rather poor tools for this. Use the lanadmin command directly and then edit the file in /etc/rc.config.d (probably hpbtlanconf) directly so that your settings will be preserved across boots.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You need to check the setting on the switchports and well as the NIC's. Auto-negotiation only works if BOTH ends of the connection are set to auto-negotiate. You must match the settings of both the NIC and its corresponding switch ports; set them both to 100FD, auto, or whatever but both must be identical. SAM is a rather poor tool for this. Use the lanadmin command directly and then edit the file in /etc/rc.config.d (probably hpbtlanconf) directly so that your settings will be preserved across boots.

[Terrence]

Sorry A Clay, for once you are close but no cigar.

My experience has been that the Gig-E cards only work as Auto Negotiate. The switch ports however we hard code to 1000 full. This works fine. (Cisco)

I couldn't get SAM to make the change for me. I shouldn't have had to because by default the Gig-E card wills be set to Auto.

Yes you guessed it someone had to set the card specifically to be 100 full. That person is being hunted down and will be shot.

The correct file in /etc/rc.config.d was hpigelanconf. If the nic isn't referenced in this file it will default to auto.

[Terrence]

See above response