ifconfig command and network hangs

[Barry Feinberg]

I am trying to configure a lan card using ifconfig "land6 10.128.44.52 netmask 255.0.0.0" and the command / network hangs. I have to unplumb lan6 from the console to unhang network. When I try to configure from sam I get the warning. "CAUTION: There is already an entry for the system name in the host table. netstat -i shows no entrie nor dose /etc/hosts or arp. What could the problem be?

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

did you tried using lanadmin?

[Barry Feinberg]

Lanadmin shows card ok.
PPA Number = 6
Description = lan6 HP A5230A/B5509BA PCI 10/100Base-TX Addon [100BASE-TX,HD,A
Type (value) = ethernet-csmacd(6)
MTU Size = 1500
Speed = 100000000
Station Address = 0x1083fb871e
Administration Status (value) = up(1)
Operation Status (value) = up(1)
Last Change = 464794437
Inbound Octets = 500615802
Inbound Unicast Packets = 4
Inbound Non-Unicast Packets = 2360377
Inbound Discards = 0
Inbound Errors = 0
Inbound Unknown Protocols = 2359354
Outbound Octets = 31542
Outbound Unicast Packets = 690
Outbound Non-Unicast Packets = 684
Outbound Discards = 0
Outbound Errors = 0
Outbound Queue Length = 0
Specific = 655367

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Ethernet-like Statistics Group

Index = 7
Alignment Errors = 0
FCS Errors = 0
Single Collision Frames = 0
Multiple Collision Frames = 0
Deferred Transmissions = 0
Late Collisions = 0
Excessive Collisions = 0
Internal MAC Transmit Errors = 0
Carrier Sense Errors = 0
Frames Too Long = 0
Internal MAC Receive Errors = 0

[Ken Hubnik_2]

Review your /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file and make sure everything is right in there. There is an entry in it for hostname.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Check if the same IP address has been used in DNS server.

try nslookup ipaddress and see if it gets resolved somehow.

-USA..

[Ravi_8]

Hi,

could you move resolv.conf to something else and use ifconfig

(mv /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.old)

[Barry Feinberg]

1. I tried ifconfig with and without an entry in netconf. It hangs my network either way.

2. Yes nslookup does show name.

3 I don't have an entry in /etc/resolv.conf for this IP so I don't think that could be an issue.

[Steven E. Protter]

Barry, HP-UX will hang if you try and configure two NIC cards on the same subnet.

lets say lan0 is 192.168.0.2 255.255.255.0

ifconfig lan1 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0

This will hang networking and drop the box right off the network.

It's a common error, since apparently you can get away with this in Linux.

Check that, check for duplicate IP addresses elsewhere on the network.

SEP

[Barry Feinberg]

I tried different subnets and have the same problem. I'm looking into maybe another server having the same IP address.

[Jon Finley]

If you duplicated your system disks from another system, check under /etc/rc.config.d within the HPETHERCONF file.

SAM appearently has a sense of humor in that it will burn the MAC address for the NIC's into this file if you use it to configure your cards. The system will then appear to have a duplicate IP address because of the duplicate MAC address on the network.

Remove the entries.

Jon

[Barry Feinberg]

Steven was right after all. I was changing the submask but was changing the wrong segment in subnet. Steven gets the points.

[rick jones]

Stephen -

It may seem a nit, but HP-UX networking _may_ _appear_ to hang if one configures multiple physical interfaces into the same subnet, and those interfaces are not connected to the same broadcast domain (switch fabric).

"Livelock" or somesuch may be a better term though - the stack is still sending and receiving packets, it is just that the packets it is sending may not reach the destination becaue they've gone out the one interface rather than the other(s).

Configuring multiple physical interfaces into the same subnet and getting things to work as typicaly desired is _possible_ but it requires some combination of specific host/net routes and/or use of ip_strong_es_model.