Thanks Tim, Erast,

On 21/12 23:02:24, Erast Benson wrote:
> Ah... right. Just copy over 2 .deb files: myamanet-gani_*.deb and
> sunwrge_*.deb and install with dpkg -i *.deb. Should work.

On 22/12 01:52:23, Tim Spriggs wrote:
> Since there is no working network connectivity to the host you may
> need to download the files manually. You can grab via the "dl" link
> provided on these pages:
>
> http://builder.tajinc.org/?f=package_status&view_method=name&package_name=myamanet-gani
> http://builder.tajinc.org/?f=package_status&view_method=name&package_name=sunwrge

This approach did work in one sense - after installing the packages
and rebooting, I found the network device (rge0) was identified and
DHCP-configured (now I just need to work out how to configure it as a
static IP... hm, must be docs somewhere :)).

The problem after that was a little more bizarre - "ping -s $HOST"
would delay for 10 or so seconds and then spray a group of results on
the screen at once. Trying to ssh to other machines on my network
would timeout - running ssh in max-debug mode (ie. 'ssh -v -v -v')
indicated that it got up to a certain point and then no further.

I could even see output in the logs on the other machines (that I was
trying to ssh to) showing an initial connection from the Nexenta
machine, but nothing beyond that.

And similarly, apt-get/aptitude update would just timeout.

I eventually guessworked my way to thinking that it might be the same
problem described in this OpenSolaris bug:

http://bugs.opensolaris.org/view_bug.do?bug_id=6717107

This suggested a workaround as follow:

> Add
>   set ip:dohwcksum = 0
> to /etc/system.
> 
> Or run this command as root:
> echo 'ip`dohwcksum/w 0' | mdb -kw

...which worked.

Well, worked in the sense that I now appear to have a functioning
network :-).

I gathered from some of the places referencing this bug that disabling
hardware-checksumming is probably not a good long-term solution, but
I'm quite happy to settle for a short-term solution at the moment.

The bug report indicates it was fixed in snv_99, which I presume is
not part of the current Nexenta2 beta release (but hopefully will be at
some point in the future :)).

Thanks again for the help.

Pete.
-- 
"If that makes any sense to you, you have a big problem."
                -- C. Durance, Computer Science 234
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