hey gang. Me again. Resolved that very odd problem where my second Linux
LPAR could only see device 83F. Someone had loaded an old OSA-SF
configuration to that card at the last POR and port 1 was not defined. We
loaded a new config, configured the chipid offline to all systems and
loaded a new config - voila , the port 1 address pair showed up.
The first Linux partition is SuSE 7.0, (2.2.16) very old at this point.
The new one (have been trying RH and SuSE) is the install ramdisk system
for SuSE 7.2, (2.4.7 I think)
The network card in question is an OSA Express ENTR 10 MB 2 port card.
LPAR 1 sees device 0830, 0831 and 083F - and is currently configured for
'auto' detection of the ethernet hardware.
LPAR 2 sees device 0832,0833 and 083F - This was attempted with auto and
manual configuration so device and port could be specified.
OSASF indicates the port 0 MAC address was 00:20:35:04:F6:4D
and that the port 1 MAC address was 00:20:35:04:F6:CD
The two LPARS are reporting they are talking to the device with MAC address
00:20:35:04:F6:4D
The second LPAR, is obviously not getting to the network. What I wanna
figure out is HOW the Linux is seeing/retrieving the same MAC address from
the hardware on two diff. ports.
