On 6 Mar 2007 04:55:48 -0800
"bozothedeathmachine" <bozothedeathmachine@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all. I have a Netra440 with 10 interfaces, the 2 onboard + 2 cards
> with 4 interfaces each. I have ce2 & ce6 setup for multipathing
> failover. I'm dropping packets on ce2, but when I failover I don't on
> ce6. I'm really stumped about the network dropping packets. It seems
> to be localized to a logical interface on the OCS.
>
> The interfaces are connected to a switch, which is connected to a
> router.
>
> I have tried to change everything in between but it's still dropping:
> The tests I ran included:
> 1) Changed the physical interface to ce2 - moved the cable to another
> unused interface on the server. Eliminates possbility it's the network
> card interface
> 2) Changed cables - eliminates bad cable possbility
> 3) Changed ports on switch - elimates chance it's a bad port on the
> router.
> 4) Failed over to redundant interface. ce2 and ce6 are configured as
> redunant interfaces. If I pull the cable on ce2 then ce6 comes up with
> the same IP. When I do this I can run a ping test I get no dropped
> packets to ce6. This is the part that doesn't make any sense to me. I
> don't see how it's possible for dropped packets to be linked to a
> logical interface like that.
>
> At the beginning of the tests I was manually setting ce2 to 100/full
> with no autonegotiate. I did the same on the switch, but not on ce6. I
> could remove the manual configuration on ce2, but I don't know what
> that would gain.
>
> Please help!
>
> Thanks,
> Ben..
>
Hi
Maybe running these scripts may help in pin pointing some differences?
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/desc...network_config
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/desc...heck__determin

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