RP7410 network access

[John Goetz]

Everytime I reboot a RP7410 running 11.11, I can not access the server via the network.
However after I go through
set_parms addl_netwrk and say yes to my present Default Gateway and DNS parameters, the network starts to work until I reboot again.

[RAC_1]

Do you have network setup properly in /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file?

Has the DNS been set properly?

Also check ndd parameter ip_ire_gw_probe.

ndd -h ip_ire_gw_probe

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

A common problem with these situations is this: Another machine has the came IP address as your server. That can lead to network connectivity suddenly dropping out and denial of access.

Obviously /etc/resolv.conf and DNS can make the situation worse.

If by chance you have two network cards, you should not attempt to bring up a second card on the same network as the first card that comes up. HP-UX will not tolerate this.

192.168.0.2
255.255.255.0 netmask

Under this scenario the network is 192.168.0 and two cards can not be up on the same network.

SEP

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi John,

Take a good hard look at your default route statement in the /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file. There's probably an error (Check index #s) in there.

If you're able & can, go to the console & run /sbin/init.d/net stop & then /sbin/init.d/start
If there's an error in the netconf file you should get an error I believe.
You could also look at the /etc/rc.log file for errors when the network is started.
But this certainly sounds like there's a problem in the file.

HTH,
Jeff