[Server-devel] XS 0.5 - eth1 not coming up

[Jerry Vonau]

Anna wrote:
> I installed XS 0.5 and am having trouble configuring the LAN.  I have 2 NICs
> - eth0 to the outside world and eth1 facing the LAN.
> 
> I've read README.networking in /usr/share/doc/xs-config and looked at the
> ifcfg scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, but I still can't figure
> out how landbond0 fits into the environment.  When I do ifconfig, it seems
> like lanbond0 is getting assigned the stuff I'm used to seeing on eth1.
> Eth1 doesn't get anything.
> 
Eth1 should not show up configured, it becomes part of the bonding 
device lanbond0 and friends. Eth1 should show in the second line "SLAVE"
to signal that it is part of a bonding device.

> Here's the output of ifconfig for eth1 and the lanbond stuff:
> 
> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0D:56:05:7C:DA
>           inet6 addr: fe80::20d:56ff:fe05:7cda/64 Scope:Link
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:10
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:468 (468.0 b)

Is that after you did an ifconfig up/down or after you re-booted?
If that is after you rebooted, could you forward to me the 
/var/log/messages log file to hunt through?

> 
> lanbond0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
>           inet addr:172.18.96.1  Bcast:172.18.127.255  Mask:255.255.224.0
>           UP BROADCAST MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> 
> lanbond0:1 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
>           inet addr:172.18.1.1  Bcast:172.18.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> 
> lanbond0:2 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:00:00:00:00
>           inet addr:172.18.0.1  Bcast:172.18.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>           UP BROADCAST MASTER MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> 
> 
> Of course, being the adventuresome type, I did:
> 
> ifconfig eth1 172.18.96.0 netmask 255.255.224.0
> 
> ifdown lanbond0
> 
> Which broke everything till I rebooted.
> 
> Any suggestions on configuration?

What do you need to do/change?

Jerry