Micah Yoder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two RH6.2 boxes connected to each other by Ethernet, a crossover
> cable. Both have 3Com 905 cards.
>
> The names are eclipse and nova. The weird thing is that nova MUST come
> up first, or they won't talk to each other.
>
> If I boot eclipse when nova is not on, eth0 is not activated. If I
> later boot nova and run 'ifup eth0' on eclipse, I get this message:
>
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device
> SIOCADDRT: Network is down
> SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable
>
> If I run the same command AGAIN, it just hangs and I have to kill a
> process or two to get the shell prompt back. Then, (if I ran ifup eth0
> twice during that session), when I shut down the computer, it hangs on
> bringing eth0 down, and I can do nothing but hit reset. It doesn't
> unmount the filesystems.
>
> When nova is the first one up, eth0 comes up fine, and when it's on when
> eclipse comes up, everything is great.
>
> The files /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 are identical on the
> two systems, except for the IP addresses of course. nova is 10.0.0.10
> and eclipse is 10.0.0.20
>
> Any ideas? I'd kind of like to get this fixed because in almost all
> cases, eclipse is the one I'd rather turn on first in the day. I'm not
> a "leave the computer on all the time" guy, especially with rising power
> prices...
Funky NIC? I would swap the cards to try and isolate the problem. If the
problem moves to the other machine I would be temped to replace it although
there might be some diagnostic stuff you can do to see if the eproms
contain the same data. I don't know squat about 3-com cards. Are they the
same revision and everything?
Bret
_______________________________________________
Redhat-list mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
