HPEISA100BT card can't keep its IP address

[John O'Rourke]

Hi,
I've added a 2nd ethernet card to my D-Class 9000 running 10.20 and have the latest cumulative patch for this card. I can go into SAM and easily configure the 2nd card (which is part of a second subnet). SO now I have 2 ethernet interfaces, one serving segment A and the other serving segment B. All works well until I reboot the box. Then the second interface comes back enabled but without any IP info. I then reconfigure the info and its fine again.

There's no DHCP on that segment.

Can anybody help ????


Thanks

[Patrick Wallek]

John,

Have a look at your /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file and make sure that there are appropriate entries in there for your 2nd lan card. I suspect that there aren't, which is the root of your problem.

[Roger Baptiste]

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Seems that the netconf file in /etc/rc.config.d doesnt have the right entries. Check the file and make sure the ip address , subnet and status entries for the second interface is set correctly. Also make sure the array subscript is correct.

Look at /etc/rc.log file for the messages corresponding to the execution of /sbin/init.d/net startup script. It will show any errors encountered in setting the interfaces.

HTh
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[Bill Hassell]

SAM is supposed to make the correct entries in the netconf file so you may be running an unpatched version of SAM. The netconf file uses shell script arrays to hold the settings for each LAN card, so make sure the new card uses [1] (if is called lan1) for settings.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi John,

If you are still having this problem, suggest you try this. From the console login as root. go to Sam --> Networking and communication --> Interface cards --> Select the port you have configured earlier --> Delete the current configuration --> Reconfigure the port. Do this for all the configure network ports. Reboot the system and see if the configuration still gives problem.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[paul courry]

On the D class boxes, the program EISACONFIG is used to set various parameters in NVM. Just pro forma I suggest you run the program and make sure everything is all right.

[John O'Rourke]

HI,
Thanks for the input but I'm still having the same problem.
I cleaned up the netconf file the way I think it should be (I guess if I knew I wouldn't be asking you ???). Please see the attached file (just text) and help ....

Thanks...

JOR

[Sanjay_6]

Hi john,

If you are having problem with lan0, check the broadcast address in the netconf file attached by you. The card does not have a bradcast addresss.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Bert Kamps]

You also forgot to enter the value for RARPD.
I've attached my netconf file, maybe you can compare it with yours.

ps: Do you have some network performance problems with the eisa btlan card? I can't get the thing working on full duplex with our alcatel switch, and autosensing isn't working at all.
Now i have the card running at 100 mbs half duplex, but i only get network tranfspeeds of 6,7 megaBytes/s (tested with HP netperf).

Could you also give me the patchID for the new drivers that you've downloaded?

[Nashford Ramdeen]

Check to ensure that you do not have a backup copy of netconf in /etc/rc.config.d. If there are other versions of netconf then move them to another directory.

Also check /etc/rc.log to see if there are any errors when configuring the lan cards

[Darrell Allen]

Hi John,

About the lack of a broadcast address in netconf: interface entries in netconf are simply ifconfig arguments. Thus, since ifconfig will default the broadcast address based on the IP address and subnet mask, you don't need to specify the broadcast address in netconf.

I don't see anything obviously wrong in your netconf. According to it the ifconfig command should be:
ifconfig lan1 10.0.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255 up
Is that what you use to manually config the interface?

Darrell

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Bert,

You are never going to get your EISA LAN card to exceed 100HD. That is it's maximum setting.
Also, you will find that the use of auto-negotiate is not very reliable on essentially any HP server. The best and most relaiable results are obtained by hard-setting the speed/duplex on both ends (host and switch) of each network connection.

[Tim D Fulford]

HI

In addition to the other comments above, You seem to have an extra variable INTERFACE[*]. I do not think this variable exists.

Also when I jhave problems with a lancard (configuration wise) I usually find that someone has fiddled with either
/etc/rc.config.d/hpetherconf
or
/etc/rc.config.d/hpbase100conf

You may find the mac address is that of another (possibly DHCP?) card.

Just my 0.02 ??? worth

Tim