[Server-devel] XS 0.5 Second Attempt at eth1

[Jerry Vonau]

Anna wrote:
> Per Jerry's suggestion, I added this to /etc/modprobe.d/xs_bonding and
> deleted stuff from the prior suggestion, though I can put that back in if
> it's going to make a difference.
> 
> options lanbond0 mode=active-backup arp_interval=1000 arp_ip_target=
> 172.18.96.5
> 
> I went ahead and rebooted.  I connected my AP, which is set to that IP
> address, directly to eth1.  Still couldn't ping it.
> 
> When I do ifdown eth1 then ifup eth1, here's the output from
> /var/log/messages:
> 
> Dec  4 12:30:39 schoolserver1 avahi-daemon[3209]: Withdrawing address record
> for fe80::20f:1fff:fedd:3b93 on eth1.
> Dec  4 12:30:40 schoolserver1 ntpd[3109]: Deleting interface #14 eth1,
> fe80::20f:1fff:fedd:3b93#123, interface stats: received=0, sent=0,
> dropped=0, active_time=951 secs
> Dec  4 12:30:44 schoolserver1 kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not
> ready
> 
> I even set my Ubuntu machine to 172.18.96.5 netmask 255.255.224.0 and
> plugged it in directly to the XS.  Still nothing.
> 
> Here's the output of the other stuff you asked for.
> 
> [root at schoolserver1 ~]# ethtool eth1
> Settings for eth1:
>     Supported ports: [ TP ]
>     Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
>                             100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
>                             1000baseT/Full
>     Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
>     Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
>                             100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
>                             1000baseT/Full
>     Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
>     Speed: Unknown! (65535)
>     Duplex: Unknown! (255)
>     Port: Twisted Pair
>     PHYAD: 0
>     Transceiver: internal
>     Auto-negotiation: on
>     Supports Wake-on: umbg
>     Wake-on: g
>     Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
>     Link detected: no
> 
No link, not good.


> [root at schoolserver1 ~]# ip addr
> 1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN
>     link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
>     inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
>     inet6 ::1/128 scope host
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> 2: eth1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state
> DOW
> N qlen 100
>     link/ether 00:0f:1f:dd:3b:93 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     inet6 fe80::20f:1fff:fedd:3b93/64 scope link
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> 3: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state
> UNKNO
> WN qlen 1000
>     link/ether 00:80:c6:ea:10:2e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     inet 192.168.1.9/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global eth0
>     inet6 fe80::280:c6ff:feea:102e/64 scope link
>        valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
> 4: bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN
>     link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 5: lanbond0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
> noqueue s
> tate DOWN
>     link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     inet 172.18.96.1/19 brd 172.18.127.255 scope global lanbond0
>     inet 172.18.1.1/24 brd 172.18.1.255 scope global lanbond0:1
>     inet 172.18.0.1/24 brd 172.18.0.255 scope global lanbond0:2

again no link.

> 6: mshbond0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
> noqueue s
> tate DOWN
>     link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     inet 172.18.10.1/23 brd 172.18.11.255 scope global mshbond0
>     inet 172.18.16.1/24 brd 172.18.16.255 scope global mshbond0:1
> 7: mshbond1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
> noqueue s
> tate DOWN
>     link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     inet 172.18.12.1/23 brd 172.18.13.255 scope global mshbond1
> 8: mshbond2: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
> noqueue s
> tate DOWN
>     link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>     inet 172.18.14.1/23 brd 172.18.15.255 scope global mshbond2
> 
> And yes, I know which card is which.  If eth0 weren't connected properly to
> my LAN, I couldn't have scp'd this output over to my "main" XS 0.5 test box,
> which has active jabber users on it, so I'm trying to keep from messing with
> it too much until I know exactly what's going on.
> 
> On both boxes, I have swapped cables, moved the NICs to different slots,
> tried connecting with and without hubs, tried connecting to the AP and
> Fedora and Ubuntu desktops, pretty much everything I can think of.  They're
> both old Dells from circa 2003, though they're different models.  Both
> worked fine with XS 0.4.
> 
auto-negotiation appears to be failing, setting the card to a down 
state. Ok think we need to set the speed of the card by hand, via 
ifcfg-eth1 file, could you add:
ETHTOOL_OPTS= speed <10/100/1000> duplex <half/full> autoneg off

and restart the network.

Jerry