On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 15:40 +0200, Guy Deleeuw wrote:
Hello
I have a problem with a blade server Siemens PrimeCenter with 2 switchs
Gbe IBP (Gigabits Intelligent Blade panel) .
This server has 2x3 nic's, but I can only setting up the 2 first
interfaces, one by IBP.
Example
sFw01:~# ifup eth2
In my syslog :
Sep 18 13:27:30 sFw01 kernel: [90584.043038] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth2:
link is not ready
and the result of eth2 ip link say NO CARRIER.
4: eth2: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether 00:1b:24:5e:d1:cc brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
Our provider replace the blade but the problem persist, and he say that
the problem come from Debian5.
I check the network cable :-) it is ok.
[...]
Are you sure that the cable was connected to the port named eth2? The
interfaces might not be named in the order you expect. If the ports
have visible LEDs, then 'ethtool -p eth2' should make eth2's LED blink.
Otherwise, bring up all the interfaces with ifconfig and then check
their link state. Linux does not monitor or report the link state for
interfaces that have not been brought up.
If some of the ports really don't work under Debian 5.0, please file a
bug using reportbug. Ask your provider which distributions are tested
and known to be working with this hardware, so we can compare the driver
versions.
Ben.