Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-11 Thread Christopher Chan
Are there 'services' that the network 'depends' on, but which are are started *later* then network? Running 'service network restart' as a cure suggests this. Do you have any special or custom init scripts relating to your bonding (maybe something that loads special kernel modules or

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-09 Thread Robert Heller
At Fri, 09 Jul 2010 10:30:06 +0800 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote: On Thursday, July 08, 2010 09:40 PM, JohnS wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 07:51 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: I think some bridge or vlan scenarios require promiscuous mode (and the corresponding disabling of

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-08 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 08/07/10 15:41, Christopher Chan wrote: No new boxes. Not possible for any other box to be assigned the same ip internally via dhcp and definitely not the same Internet ip. Exactly. DHCP server would check for a conflict before assigning an address and is definitely not the source of the

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-08 Thread Christopher Chan
Did not know that both had stopped. Conflicting IP addresses was just a suggestion. May not be the problem at all. With bonding, breaking one might break both down at the MAC level ... Hmmm ... which bond mode are you using? Why mode 4 of course. The box with the problem just so

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-08 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 07/08/2010 05:08 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: Hmmm ... which bond mode are you using? Why mode 4 of course. Ouch. Never used that mode. snip mode=4 (802.3ad) IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic link aggregation. Creates aggregation groups that share the same speed and duplex settings. Utilizes all

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-08 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, July 08, 2010 05:09 PM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: On 07/08/2010 05:08 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: Hmmm ... which bond mode are you using? Why mode 4 of course. Ouch. Never used that mode. Huh? Like why? It's the recommended mode unless the switch does not suppoprt it or the

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-08 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Christopher Chan wrote: On Thursday, July 08, 2010 05:09 PM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: On 07/08/2010 05:08 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: Hmmm ... which bond mode are you using? Why mode 4 of course. Ouch. Never used that mode. Huh? Like why? It's the recommended mode unless the switch does not

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-08 Thread Hakan Koseoglu
HiChristopher, On 08/07/10 10:25, Christopher Chan wrote: Why mode 4 of course. Huh? Like why? It's the recommended mode unless the switch does not suppoprt it or the boards don't. I never realised this is the recommended mode. Do you have pointers where it is recommended so that I can read

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-08 Thread Les Mikesell
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: On Thursday, July 08, 2010 05:09 PM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: On 07/08/2010 05:08 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: Hmmm ... which bond mode are you using? Why mode 4 of course. Ouch. Never used that mode. Huh? Like why? It's the

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-08 Thread JohnS
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 07:51 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: I think some bridge or vlan scenarios require promiscuous mode (and the corresponding disabling of hardware acceleration). Maybe the real issue is that something accidentally disabled it and you now only work when tcpdump

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-08 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Hakan Koseoglu wrote: HiChristopher, On 08/07/10 10:25, Christopher Chan wrote: Why mode 4 of course. Huh? Like why? It's the recommended mode unless the switch does not suppoprt it or the boards don't. I never realised this is the recommended mode. Do you have pointers where it is

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-08 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
JohnS wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 07:51 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: I think some bridge or vlan scenarios require promiscuous mode (and the corresponding disabling of hardware acceleration). Maybe the real issue is that something accidentally disabled it and you now only work when

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-08 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Les Mikesell wrote: Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: On Thursday, July 08, 2010 05:09 PM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: On 07/08/2010 05:08 PM, Christopher Chan wrote: Hmmm ... which bond mode are you using? Why mode 4 of course. Ouch. Never used that mode. Huh? Like

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-08 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, July 08, 2010 09:40 PM, JohnS wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 07:51 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: I think some bridge or vlan scenarios require promiscuous mode (and the corresponding disabling of hardware acceleration). Maybe the real issue is that something accidentally

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-07 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 06/07/10 22:48, Les Mikesell wrote: Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: And now the thing is working again... It's not working again. Running tcpdump -i vlan seems to trigger something to get the network working again but as soon as I stop tcpdump...nada, zip,

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-07 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, July 08, 2010 09:26 AM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: On 06/07/10 22:48, Les Mikesell wrote: Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: And now the thing is working again... It's not working again. Running tcpdump -i vlan seems to trigger something to get the network

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-07 Thread Kahlil Hodgson
On 08/07/10 14:58, Christopher Chan wrote: If you have two machines on the same network with the same IP address you get behaviour like this. Had this happen once when an engineer reset a UPSs and it took on the IP address of a main switch. arpwatch is your friend. Unfortunately all

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-07 Thread Christopher Chan
On Thursday, July 08, 2010 01:32 PM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: On 08/07/10 14:58, Christopher Chan wrote: If you have two machines on the same network with the same IP address you get behaviour like this. Had this happen once when an engineer reset a UPSs and it took on the IP address of a main

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-06 Thread Christopher Chan
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Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-06 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Christopher Chan wrote: And now the thing is working again... It's not working again. Running tcpdump -i vlan seems to trigger something to get the network working again but as soon as I stop tcpdump...nada, zip, zilch. Any ideas? I see no errors in the logs whether of the switch or the box,

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-06 Thread Les Mikesell
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: And now the thing is working again... It's not working again. Running tcpdump -i vlan seems to trigger something to get the network working again but as soon as I stop tcpdump...nada, zip, zilch. Any ideas? I see no errors in

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-06 Thread Chan Chung Hang Christopher
Les Mikesell wrote: Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: And now the thing is working again... It's not working again. Running tcpdump -i vlan seems to trigger something to get the network working again but as soon as I stop tcpdump...nada, zip, zilch. Any ideas? I

Re: [CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-06 Thread Christopher Chan
On Tuesday, July 06, 2010 09:21 PM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Les Mikesell wrote: Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Christopher Chan wrote: And now the thing is working again... It's not working again. Running tcpdump -i vlan seems to trigger something to get the network working

[CentOS] Networking just stopped working

2010-07-05 Thread Christopher Chan
Hi all, I have a box with a quad port Netxen NIC running Centos 5. All four interfaces are slaves of bond0 and bond0 is used by two vlan interfaces. All was working just fine until just recently when everything just stopped working. ethtool reports all the individual interfaces are just fine.