Re: Sun Fire V210 NIC's don't work

[Frans van Berckel <fberckel@xs4all.nl>]

On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 17:14 +0000, Kaya Saman wrote:
> For a subnet which is /30 CIDR or 255.255.255.252 you should get 4 IP's: 
> network, broadcast, + 2 usable - this is a kind of pseudo point-to-point 
> interface.

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A-ha, that sounds as a clear case.

> All reloaded, sorry for the confusion but I rearranged things to test 
> and see if eth1 became primary. Again no link :-( I will also try with 
> eth2 and eth3 but I have my doubts; I even changed the cable and no joy. 
> Something is definitely hinky!

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I am almost sure there's no problem with eth1. Check with ifconfig, the
ip config is set okay now. Did you test already  pinging ping
192.168.140.2 from ping 192.168.140.1? 

> I'm sure it's the driver or kernel bug.... though I could be wrong.

Convince me?

Thanks,


Frans van Berckel