From: Mike Broderick (broderic@MIT.EDU)
Date: Wed Sep 04 2002 - 23:10:48 EDT
Thanks for input from Alan Nguyen and Alan Nabeth for suggesting using the std
tools for adding the interface and restarting the network. I poked through the
rcinet code and it appeared to do nothing more than call the /sbin/rc3.d network
related scripts, the first called inet taht didn't appear to do much more than
the ifconfig I manually did. I tried the reboot but it didn't help. We later
found bad cabling (left/right swapped). (The cabling had been done a long time
ago and I only did a brief check that I had a loop, not that the cables had
their left/right sides done properly.) After fixing the cabling, all worked w/o
another reboot. I suspect the ifconfig [up] I manually did was sufficient and
the reboot made no difference.
_Mike
Mike Broderick wrote:
>
> We have 4 alpha systems (ds20,es40) wired in a FDDI ring but never used (the
> interfaces were never configured at the o/s level). I need to make this
> active. I've ifconfig'd the interfaces but they are still not active (cannot
> ping each other). Do I need to reboot all machines to get them active? (These
> are 7x24 production machines so I don't want to schedule a reboot unless
> certain it will get this working.)
>
> Thanks.
>
> _Mike
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_Mike
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