Blade Chasis 5316 switch not uplinking RHEL4?

[Harald_Jensas at Dell.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com 
> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Brian Murphy
> Sent: 03 January 2007 20:39
> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: Blade Chasis 5316 switch not uplinking RHEL4?
> 
> We have a PE1855 blade chasis with 8 blades.  The chasis has a pair of
> 5316 switches for the networking.  The switches have current firmware.
> 
> console> show version
> SW version      1.0.0.38 ( date  06-Mar-2006 time  09:27:03 )
> Boot version    1.0.0.14 ( date  16-Jan-2005 time  17:20:34 )
> HW version    00.00.02
> 
> 
> All was working well.
> 
> We recently added 2 new PE1955 blades into the remaining 2 
> slots.  RHEL
> 4 U3 installed fine.  The 1955 with RHEL4.3 can talk with 
> other blades within the chasis but the switch isn't passing 
> traffic thru the uplink to other servers on the same subnet 
> who are external to the blade chasis.
> 
> The switch port settings for the 1955 slots are identical to 
> the working
> 1855 blades.  The 1855 blades talk to external hosts fine.
> 
> Any ideas?  I tried to google for an answer and came up with nothing.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Brian
> 

I recommend that you Tech Support, I suggest you have the following information available when you call.

- Service Tag of your Blade Chassie
- Service Tag og atleast one of the 1955 blades
- The PPID and/or DS/N number on the PowerConnect Switches


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Harald Jensås