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One of my servers has a lot of IP aliases on eth0 so I thought it would be |
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easier to use iproute2 instead of ifconfig. I duly commented out |
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modules=("ifconfig") in /etc/conf.d/net (since the comments indicate |
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iproute2 is the default in that case). Upon reboot, the startup scripts |
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showed the IP aliases being added and each said [ok] but they did not |
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appear to be added at all. Did I do something wrong or is iproute2 not the |
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right tool for the job? I switched back to ifconfig and the startup |
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scripts work fine. |
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Also, each IP took a few seconds to add (this machine has 260 IPs!) - as |
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you can imagine it took about 15 minutes to add all the IPs before the |
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rest of the boot process could continue. Is there any way to speed this |
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up? Maybe forego the "arping" check for every single IP added? |
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Final problem: I tried to force full-duplex on eth0 by using ethtool in |
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the preup() function in /etc/conf.d/net. But now Im seeing errors like |
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this on my console: |
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eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. |
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Probably a duplex mismatch. See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt |
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Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 4225325(13) current 4225325(13) |
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Transmit list 00000000 vs. f7c2da20. |
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0: @f7c2d200 length 8000059a status 0001059a |
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1: @f7c2d2a0 length 80000042 status 00010042 |
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2: @f7c2d340 length 800005ea status 000105ea |
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3: @f7c2d3e0 length 800005ea status 000105ea |
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4: @f7c2d480 length 800005ea status 000105ea |
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5: @f7c2d520 length 80000245 status 00010245 |
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6: @f7c2d5c0 length 800005ea status 000105ea |
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7: @f7c2d660 length 800005ea status 000105ea |
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8: @f7c2d700 length 800005ea status 000105ea |
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9: @f7c2d7a0 length 800005ea status 000105ea |
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10: @f7c2d840 length 800005ea status 000105ea |
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11: @f7c2d8e0 length 800005ea status 000105ea |
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12: @f7c2d980 length 8000042a status 8001042a |
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13: @f7c2da20 length 800005e2 status 000105e2 |
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14: @f7c2dac0 length 800005e2 status 000105e2 |
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15: @f7c2db60 length 8000059a status 0001059a |
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The switch this is plugged in to (HP ProCurve) indicates that the port is |
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set to 100Mbit-FDx with flow control switched on, so why the errors? The |
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NICs on this server are 3c980-C. |
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