[clue] networking Q?

Mike Bean beandaemon at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 13:36:26 MDT 2016


Think I might've figured it out.  Discovered ethtool -i will give you the
driver of the device.  Discovered the 10G is actually eth4 on this box.
Testing my hypothesis.


On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Charles Burton <charles.d.burton at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Did you make sure the HWADDR is the same?  You can just comment that out
> too if you're using a single adapter.
>
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Mike Bean <beandaemon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> OK, I'm running low on my bag of tricks,  as is my custom when I get
>> desperate, I consult the council!
>>
>> I have a series of seven DL380's using 10GB 2 port NICs which are HP 560
>> SFP adapters.  Using the same configuration on each host, I've been able to
>> get network on six of them, using CentOS 6.7; config files follow
>>
>> As near as I can tell, the only difference between the one without
>> network, and the 6 that do, is the six that do have two of the 10GB nics,
>> and the one without, has one.  (2 ports to each NIC)
>>
>> Ethtool shows no link, ip link show, shows BROADCAST, MULTICAST, UP,
>>  state unknown.
>>
>> (scratches head)   If I'm missing something, I sure don't know what it
>> is.  Got my networking guy to show me a copy of the switch port config,
>> it's identical for all ports.  My onsite guy assures me it's plugged in and
>> they've got link light on the cable.
>>
>> If I'm missing something, it sure isn't jumping out at me.  So all advice
>> is appreciated.
>> Is there a way to tell definitively which ethernet I need configure?  In
>> case maybe it's not eth0?   Unlikely - since the other six came up fine
>> when I configured eth0, but I'm running low on ideas.
>>
>> Mike B
>>
>> (etc/hosts)
>> 127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4
>> localhost4.localdomain4
>> ::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6
>> localhost6.localdomain6
>> 127.0.1.1 (HOSTNAME)
>>
>> (/etc/resolv.conf)
>> search DOMAIN1 DOMAIN2 nameserver DNS1 nameserver DNS2
>>
>> (/etc/sysconfig/network)
>> NETWORKING=yes
>> GATEWAY= (GATEWAY)
>> HOSTNAME= (HOSTNAME)
>> IPV6FORWARDING=yes
>> IPV6_AUTOCONF=no
>> IPV6_AUTOTUNNEL=no
>> IPV6_DEFAULTDEV=eth0
>> NETWORKING_IPV6=yes
>>
>> (/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0)
>>
>> DEVICE=eth0 HWADDR= (SOMEADDR) TYPE=Ethernet UUID= (SOMEUUID) ONBOOT=yes
>> NM_CONTROLLED=yes BOOTPROTO=static GATEWAY= (GATEWAY) IPADDR=(IPADDR)
>> NETMASK=255.255.255.0 DNS1= (DNS1) DNS2=(DNS2) DOMAIN=(DOMAIN) PEERDNS=no
>> USERCTL=no
>>
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