ignite server comm problem?

[john kusiak]

we're running 11.11 at various points during the client installation the ignite server loses its network connectivity. (unable to ping to and from the server). the only way we've found to restore the servers network connection is to shutdown, power off, then disconnect the power plug. (rebooting or shutting down does not restore the connection) if we don't remove the power plug the servers network port stays dead. we've replaced the switch with a hub, built another server, replaced cables, all with the same results. I then changed the servers lanconfig to 100/half_dx and it worked .... for seven clients, installing them at the same time. after the 7 were completed the same problem occurred with the next install, a single client. the clients lanconfig is set to auto. on another server we've seen the same problem only it happened to a client. ( to restore its net connection we had to disconnect the power plug ). HELP!

[G. Vrijhoeven]

Hi John,

Did you try setting the network speed on 100FD ( lanadmin -x ppa ( get settings)( lanadmin -X 100FD ppa ( set speed) also edit /etc/rc.config.d/hpbtlanconf ( driver config file).
You are able to reset your network adapter with the lanadmin command aswell.

HTH,

Gideon

[Sanjay_6 · Accepted solution]

Hi John,

Take a look at this thread,

http://www2.itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docLocale=en_US&docId=200000065679831

The itrc doc id is KBRC00008116

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Steven E. Protter]

Most likely cause of this is inconsistent network settings, though there are other possibilities.

instl_adm -d to check settings on server
instl_adm -d > file
edit file

instl_adm -f file

to read new settings out of the file.

To monitor network
netstat -i 3

That will initiate monitoring on the network and let you see byte flow.

Make sure nfs patches are up to date.

Check your archive. Depending on your Ignite version 3.x.x if you added a pax patch to your system pax_iux in older versions of Ignite won't unpack files bigger than 2 GB. You need to check that and possibly upgrade Ignite.

I know thats no fun, but the alternative is to back out the pax patch and rebuild your golden image.

SEP

[john kusiak]

Thank you all for responding so quickly. I added init_lanadmin_args="-S 1" to the output file from instl_adm -d and then set all the ports that were being used (cisco switch) to duplex full.