Network card problem

[Amit Kureel]

Hello friends,
I have an L-Class server, which is 9000 m/c with HP-uX 11.00 and 3 lan cards on it. Till Saturday it was working fine, but since this morning, we are suddenly unable to ping to it..

I tried lanadmin and network card reset, I also tried a reboot, I also checked the status through lanscan and the status I see the status of the lan0 as up and the status of lan1 and lan2 as down.... lan0 is configured with proper host-IP, but through sam it's status is shown as disabled and any attempt to enable it fails without any message, self ping on the loopback and host-IP is working... I even tried to connect through a cross-cable connection, but even then I am unable to ping to it...

Any suggestions, how can I remove the configuration entries of the 3 configured cards and re-configure them through sam, because SAM doesn't show any menu item that allows me to remove a card-configuration.

Can anybody help....?

[John Waller]

Check out your /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file. It is this file which holds all the IP Address, SubNet Mask and Gateway information. You shoudl see sections for all 3 LAN cards , i.e. LAN[0) , LAN[1] , LAN [2]. You could also try looking at the man page for set_parms to try and reconfingure the default LAN card. Are you sure that the network cables going to the L class are "live" and you have not got a problem with a dead Network Hub or Switch.

[Berlene Herren]

To use sam with 100BaseT lan cards, ensure you have the latest sam and lan card patches. A good start would be :

PHKL_18543 PM/VM/UFS/async/scsi/io/DMAPI/JFS/perf patch ( do NOT reinstall this one!!!)
PHKL_20016 2nd CPU not recognized in G70/H70/I70
PHNE_22244 Built-in PCI 100BASE-T patch
PHCO_22269 cumulative SAM/ObAM patch
PHNE_22353 LAN product cumulative patch
PHNE_22397 cumulative ARPA Transport patch
PHKL_22432 VxFS 3.1 icache cumulative patch
PHNE_22566 Cumulative STREAMS Patch
PHKL_22589 LOFS, select(), IDS/9000 and umount race fix
PHKL_22840 IDS/9000; syscalls related to file/socket
PHCO_23651 fsck_vxfs(1M) cumulative patch
PHKL_23812 probe,sysproc,shmem,pm,mmap cumulative patch

Check and ensure you do not have duplicate IP addresses:

#netfmt -f /var/adm/nettl.LOG00 > /tmp/log.out

#vi /tmp/log.out >> look for something like "trying to be our address."


If you want to tear down the card and start over, you can use ifconfig unplumb. Take a look at the man page for ifconfig.

Also ensure all of your IP addresses are on different subnets.

check out http://techsolutions.hp.com/fe/tips.html for some great help!

Regards,
Berlene

[Atul Thakur]

Check your network connections before changing the network configuration on your system. The network must be alive and ok. Have the network personnel check the route first.