NIC card setting on reboot

[Rick Garland]

Hi all:

Have a system in which the NIC card is using btlan3 and I have the hpbase100conf configured with interface, MAC address, and 100FD for the speed. When the system boots is comes up at 100HD?

I have no other files in the rc.config.d directory except what is there to begin with. No .sav, .bak, .orig, etc...,m just the original files.

The system is a L2000 running HPUX 11.00. Have other systems with the same card and driver and they boot to 100FD just fine - but not this one.

I have had a couple set of eyes look at this to ensure that the info is correct. What else is happening?

Many thanks!

[Ian Kidd_1]

any chance /sbin/init.d/hpbase100 was modified by someone? I only bring this up because I ran into an issue a while back where someone modified one of the startup scripts in /sbin/init.d. I banged my head on the wall because the configuration file in /etc/rc.config.d looked right. Only after hours of frustration did I discover the modification.

I found out who did it then confronted him. I'll never forget his words - "Oh yeah, it did that to test something. Why? did it cause any problems". I think the death penalty IS a deterrent, because that's the only reason I didn't kill him.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Rick,

Do your network people have the switch port locked down to 100FD AND have Auto Negotiation OFF?

If it's negotiating it may be forcing half-duplex.

Negotiations are notoriously unreliable - make sure it's OFF on the switch.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Michael Tully · Accepted solution]

Hi Rick,

I'm sure your eyes are fine ;^)

Here's my conf file. Only thing I can think of at this stage is either patch differences or you utilising an incorrect station address..... As you can see I don't use one. Another dumb question, what is the lan port set as ?

Cheers
Michael

HP_BASE100_INTERFACE_NAME[0]=lan0
HP_BASE100_STATION_ADDRESS[0]=
HP_BASE100_SPEED[0]=100FD
###########################################################################
# The HP_BASE100_INIT_ARGS are reserved by HP. They are NOT user changable.
HP_BASE100_INIT_ARGS="HP_BASE100_STATION_ADDRESS HP_BASE100_SPEED"
# End of hpbase100conf configuration file

[Rick Garland]

On the 3rd line it shows: HP_BASET_SPEED[0] = HP_BASE100_SPEED[0]=100FD

I have removed the HP_BASET_SPEED[0]

Now what I have is just
HP_BASE100_SPEED[0]=100FD

On the surface this would appear to work - it would seem that logically the syntax is correct.

But hell - I am not Mr Spock.

I am taking the route based on another system we have (same setup and boots to 100FD fine) and based on what I have seen in the posts above.

Next time the system boots I will check out.

Many thanks to all!