Thanks guys. I think I have a lead on what's going on now.
I'm seeing traffic coming in to bge1 and dmgt0 (bge0) as swapped, meaning packets that should be on one, appear to be recieved on the other and vice versa. I have a suspicion why this is, and I'd like confirmation, and the best way to fix it if possible. On these servers the first physical physical plug on the motherboard shared between what solaris normally labels bge0 and the BMC. On the first of these servers I leave both the first and second ethernets (bge0 and bge1 normally) enabled in the BIOS. On the others, I disable the first ethernet in the BIOS, even though I leave a cable plugged into it to communicate with the BMC. (All of these machines have 2 Intel quad Gb cards, so there's no shortage of interfaces.) Because I disable the first ethernet on the motherboard, the second one ends up being labeled by Solaris as'bge0' on these machines. Anyway. I Had issues liveupgrading the machine I leave both interfaces enabled on, so sinec I didn't want to have it down too long, and other machiens were available I decided to install to afresh boot disk on one of them and then swap the boot disk into that machine. It's too late to make a long short short, but My guess is that on the machine I used to do the install, Ethernet 2 got installed a bge0, and then when I moved the disk to the other machine, Solaris saw Ethernet1 and set it up as bge1. Hence I'm seeing traffic swapped. I bet I could use vanity naming to swap them back. but I'd like to learn how to straighten this out at the lowest levels. How can I get Ethernet 1 -> bge0 and Ethernet 2 -> bge1 just like it would have been if both were enabled during installation? -Kyle _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
