>>> On 6/17/2009 at 8:36 AM, "Harder, Pieter" <[email protected]> wrote: > I think it is not a layer2/3 issue. When that is wrong the nic will get an > error on activation, but the devices will come online.
Not in my experience. Well, the individual devices do, sort of, but if you're talking about finding a "1" in the /sys/bus/ccwgroup/drivers/qeth/0.0.####/online pseudo file, then no. Additionally, at some point, it seems the default became layer2 and not 3, so you have to echo a 0 into the pseudo file beforehand. Or, use YaST and let it do it all for you, and then see what got changed under /etc for education purposes. (Highly recommended.) The reason why this all seems so hard is that there are, indeed, two pieces to the puzzle: bringing up the hardware, and bringing up the network interface. Simply creating the config files and issuing ifup doesn't handle the hardware part, and trying to figure out how to manually run the scripts to do that is rather, umm, complex to say the least. I've wrestled with that any number of times trying to debug customer problems, and I _still_ don't understand how to do it. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
