1955 blades in 1855 rack won't enable NICs
Brian_Pickering at selinc.com
Brian_Pickering at selinc.com
Mon Apr 9 14:19:09 CDT 2007
Also just had this problem, but with the 5316M switches as the OP does.
Turns out there was a problem with a run of the 5316M's that won't sync up
with the NICs in the 1955's. Call support (ask for the PowerConnect
division) and give them the service tag of your chassis/switches and
they'll swap them out for you.
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Brian Pickering
System Administrator - Information Services
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
Email - Brian_Pickering at selinc.com
Telephone - 509-332-1890 x1212
"Irwan Hadi" <ihblist3 at gmail.com>
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04/09/2007 11:58 AM
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Re: 1955 blades in 1855 rack won't enable NICs
I just experienced this issue with our Redhat ES 4 X64, also running
on a PE 1955 blade
Linux 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Feb 16 17:13:42 EST 2007 x86_64
x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
This blade is connected to embedded Cisco switch.
The fix is I need to disable "spanning-tree portfast" on the Cisco switch.
Somehow enabling spanning-tree portfast caused the network interface
to "skip" handshake at reboot, and makes it inaccessible.
Although disabling spanning-tree portfast will delay network
connectivity when the server is rebooted for up to 10 seconds, but
this better than the need to manually restart the network service.
I'm not planning to restart the server too often anyway.
Hope this helps.
On 22 Mar 2007 21:00:13 +0100, Ingvar Hagelund <ingvar at linpro.no> wrote:
> Stacked two 1955 blades in a 1855 rack. Updated PSUs and
> firmware. Blades boot up nice, but won't connect to the switch. At
> all. This goes for both eth0 and eth1, so nic ordering should not be a
> problem.
>
> [root at storm ~]# uname -r
> 2.6.9-42.ELsmp
>
> [root at storm ~]# cat /etc/redhat-release
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 4)
>
> [root at storm ~]# dmesg | grep bnx
> Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v1.4.38 (February 10,
2006)
> bnx2: eth0: using MSI
>
> [root at storm ~]# ip link set dev eth0 up && echo ok
> ok
>
> [root at storm ~]# ethtool eth0
> Settings for eth0:
> Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
> Supported link modes: 1000baseT/Full
> Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
> Advertised link modes: 1000baseT/Full
> Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
> Speed: Unknown! (65535)
> Duplex: Unknown! (255)
> Port: FIBRE
> PHYAD: 2
> Transceiver: internal
> Auto-negotiation: on
> Supports Wake-on: d
> Wake-on: d
> Link detected: no
>
> [root at storm ~]# ethtool eth1
> Settings for eth1:
> Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
> Supported link modes: 1000baseT/Full
> Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
> Advertised link modes: 1000baseT/Full
> Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
> Speed: Unknown! (65535)
> Duplex: Unknown! (255)
> Port: FIBRE
> PHYAD: 2
> Transceiver: internal
> Auto-negotiation: on
> Supports Wake-on: d
> Wake-on: d
> Link detected: no
>
> Here is the switch status. The 1955 blades are port g9 and g10.
>
> console> show interfaces status
> Flow Link Back
Mdix
> Port Type Duplex Speed Neg ctrl State Pressure
Mode
> ........ ............ ...... ..... ........ .... ........... ........
.......
> g1 1G-Fiber Full 1000 Disabled Off Up Disabled
Off
> g2 1G-Fiber Full 1000 Disabled Off Up Disabled
Off
> g3 1G-Fiber Full 1000 Disabled Off Up Disabled
Off
> g4 1G-Fiber Full 1000 Disabled Off Up Disabled
Off
> g5 1G-Fiber Full 1000 Disabled Off Up Disabled
Off
> g6 1G-Fiber Full 1000 Disabled Off Up Disabled
Off
> g7 1G-Fiber Full 1000 Disabled Off Up Disabled
Off
> g8 1G-Fiber Full 1000 Disabled Off Up Disabled
Off
> g9 1G-Fiber -- -- -- -- Down -- --
> g10 1G-Fiber -- -- -- -- Down -- --
> g11 1G-Copper Full 1000 Enabled Off Up Disabled
Off
> g12 1G-Copper Full 100 Enabled Off Up Disabled
On
> g13 1G-Copper -- -- -- -- Down -- --
> g14 1G-Copper -- -- -- -- Down -- --
> g15 1G-Copper -- -- -- -- Down -- --
> g16 1G-Copper -- -- -- -- Down -- --
>
> (...)
>
> Could switch firmware version be a problem?
>
> console> show version
> SW version 1.0.0.24 ( date 23-Sep-2004 time 19:31:17 )
> Boot version 1.0.0.12 ( date 18-Aug-2004 time 13:54:42 )
> HW version 00.00.02
>
> Ingvar
>
> --
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