Re: Sun Fire V210 NIC's don't work
I have 1 word for you
SOLARIS!!!
You wrote:
> On 11/14/2012 05:52 PM, Frans van Berckel wrote:
> > 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.
> > <snip>
> >
> > 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!
> > <snip>
> >
> > 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 can't ping anywhere from the eth1 interface :-(
>
> In addition I tried eth2 as the server has 4 NICs... it doesn't even get
> recognized by the system??
>
> >
> >> I'm sure it's the driver or kernel bug.... though I could be wrong.
> > Convince me?
>
> I stuck my laptop into the same port using the same cable and hey-presto
> I got an IP address via DHCP.
>
> If I set Debian to do the same I get nothing, and static also doesn't
> work meaning the network fabric is fully functional however, something
> is wrong with the NIC - either physically or a driver.
>
> I could try it using port eth0 and I'm sure it will work fine as it's up
> and running on a different subnet now.
>
> Hmm..... I'm at a loss :-(
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Frans van Berckel
> >
> >
>
> Thanks for the support!!!!
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Kaya
>
>
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