Hi. After running with the crossbow bits for a while, I discovered that the network management port on my T1000 wasn''t working properly (no link light). When logging in on the serial management port and running "resetsc", I got this: --->8--- ALOM POST 1.0 Dual Port Memory Test, PASSED. TTY External - Internal Loopback Test TTY External - Internal Loopback Test, PASSED. TTYC - Internal Loopback Test TTYC - Internal Loopback Test, PASSED. TTYD - Internal Loopback Test TTYD - Internal Loopback Test, PASSED. Memory Data Lines Test Memory Data Lines Test, PASSED. Memory Address Lines Test Slide address bits to test open address lines Test for shorted address lines Memory Address Lines Test, PASSED. Boot Sector FLASH CRC Test Boot Sector FLASH CRC Test, PASSED. Return to Boot Monitor for Handshake ALOM POST 1.0 Status = 00007fff Returned from Boot Monitor and Handshake Loading the runtime image... VxWorks running. Starting Advanced Lights Out Manager CMT v1.3.8 Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Current mode: NORMAL Attaching network interface lo0... done. --->8--- And then nothing. So now, the serial management port is unusable too. :-( Please advise how to fix this... // Marcus -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Ok, it turns out it wasn''t as scary as it first appeared. What happened was that somehow I lost the network connection to the machine I was running tip on (the T1000 sits as a router in between) when doing resetsc. So the serial management port in fact still works ok. The network management port is not ok though. I did have a link light on the port after resetsc, but logging in did not work, and when I went to check on the machine again, the light had went out. Is there an ALOM upgrade which I should install? // Marcus -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
Marcus, I am not aware of anything that Crossbow did that would require ilom to not work or a ilom upgrade. The network management port I believe is out of band on t1000 (has its own IP address and wire connected to switch) so I don''t think the OS even matters. But I am not too familiar with ilom internals. Will check with Mike Speer to see if he has any clue or prehaps someone on the list has better clues. Cheers, Sunay Marcus Comstedt wrote:> Ok, it turns out it wasn''t as scary as it first appeared. What happened > was that somehow I lost the network connection to the machine I was > running tip on (the T1000 sits as a router in between) when doing > resetsc. So the serial management port in fact still works ok. > > The network management port is not ok though. I did have a link light > on the port after resetsc, but logging in did not work, and when I went > to check on the machine again, the light had went out. > > Is there an ALOM upgrade which I should install? > > > // Marcus-- Sunay Tripathi Distinguished Engineer Solaris Core Operating System Sun MicroSystems Inc. Solaris Networking: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/networking Project Crossbow: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow
Marcus Comstedt wrote:> Sunay Tripathi <Sunay.Tripathi at sun.com> writes: > >> Marcus, >> >> I am not aware of anything that Crossbow did that would require ilom >> to not work or a ilom upgrade. The network management port I believe >> is out of band on t1000 (has its own IP address and wire connected to >> switch) so I don''t think the OS even matters. > > Hm, did the MAC address allocation strategy change perhaps? The thing > is that the network management port is connected to the same local > network as one of the bge ports, so if there is a MAC collision, that > might mess things up in the switch... >Are you using VNICs on this machine? Its possible that you can create a VNIC with a random mac address that can collide with the mac address for the network management port. In that case, delete all the VNIC and see if that solves the issue. For e1000g, there is only one factory mac address (I think) so you will either need to depend on random mac address or specify one during create-vnic. For some of the other NICs like nxge/xge/ixgbe (Sun NIU or Neptune/Neterion/Intel Oplin) you can choose one of the factory mac addresses when creating a VNIC in which case there are no issues. Cheers, Sunay -- Sunay Tripathi Distinguished Engineer Solaris Core Operating System Sun MicroSystems Inc. Solaris Networking: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/networking Project Crossbow: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow