Failes to start networking

[dictum9]

This is an Itenium box running 11.23.

Everything is fine but it doesn't boot up into multiuser because it fails to start networking.
/etc/rc.log points to S340net and running it manually shows this. Everything in netconf file looks good, there are DNS entrites, etc. In fact, it used to work and suddenly broke.



# /sbin/rc2.d/S340net start
ERROR: Failed to add route entry because its interface is not
yet initialized. May need to add this route entry with
a route commad after the interface is up :
add net default: gateway : Network is unreachable

[James R. Ferguson · Accepted solution]

Hi:

Did you make any configuration changes, server-side? Did your network folks change anything? What's the state of the LAN card -- lights?

Regards!

...JRF...

[DCE]

If nothing has changed on the system...

check the LAN cable

check the card and the port for connectivity (lights)

have networking people check switch/router port

run diagnostics against the LAN card

can you ping the card from the system?

can you ping the local host IP (127.0.0.1)

can you ping the switch/router?

[dictum9]

Question - I have two built-in Gig interfaces on this RX1660 and also one dual port network card.
However, when I do ioscan, all I see is this:

Are these 2 ports the dual port card or built-in ports?

I installed patches on this system and after the reboot, it didn't come up, but it may be just a coincidence.


#: ioscan -funC lan
Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description
===================================================================
lan 0 0/1/2/0 iether CLAIMED INTERFACE HP PCI-X 1000Base-T Dual-port Built-in
lan 1 0/1/2/1 iether CLAIMED INTERFACE HP PCI-X 1000Base-T Dual-port Built-in

[DCE]

I beleive these are the built in ports

The add in card should say adapter at the end of the line (at least the ioscan on my system shows that)

[DCE]

Ojne additional thought - does

ioscan

by itself show any not claimed/no hardware entries?

[dictum9]

There was an error in netconf file, it overwrote one interface with another and caused confusion.