AIX TCPIP Interface Configuration
Saravana
This is a very basic question . Still please answer me.
I have AIX 4.3 which has following interfaces.
en0,en1,et0,et1.
I configured en0 for ip address 172.16.1.80 (Ip Address). Networkmask
255.255.240.0, Domain name server 172.16.1.1 and gateway 172.16.1.1
With Name Server 172.16.1.125. All other interfaces are kept down
using smit.
But the system takes one hour for restarting. LED code 0581 takes 10
minutes to move to next code. Once I get the AIX logo it takes half an
hour to show the next message. I am also not able to ping from AIX to
even the gateway. All was fine some time back and trouble started
after we change the static route table and then reconfigured the
interfaces.Currently route table has nothing.
I did rmdev -l et0 -d (for all interfaces) then ran cfgmgr then
# smit tcpip
and from there used 'minimum config' to define the first interface,
en0.
and left other devices unconfigured.
Could anyone help me to come out of this problem.
Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Saravana
Miljenko Jandric
>Hi All,
Hi;
> This is a very basic question . Still please answer me.
>I have AIX 4.3 which has following interfaces.
> en0,en1,et0,et1.
>I configured en0 for ip address 172.16.1.80 (Ip Address). Networkmask
>255.255.240.0, Domain name server 172.16.1.1 and gateway 172.16.1.1
>With Name Server 172.16.1.125.
I understand that you have a name server, but which one is it?
172.16.1.1 or 172.16.1.125? Can you be more specific?
On another hand, are you _sure_ the mask should be 255.255.240.0? Did
you check this with your Network Admin? It is valid, I am just
wondering if that is used on your network. You _might_ try a mask of
255.255.255.0, at least for the test. Oh, and while you are doing that
check for any typing mistakes.
>All other interfaces are kept down
>using smit.
>But the system takes one hour for restarting. LED code 0581 takes 10
>minutes to move to next code. Once I get the AIX logo it takes half an
>hour to show the next message. I am also not able to ping from AIX to
>even the gateway. All was fine some time back and trouble started
>after we change the static route table and then reconfigured the
>interfaces.Currently route table has nothing.
There should at least be a default route. What do you get when you
type 'netstat -rn'?
>
>I did rmdev -l et0 -d (for all interfaces) then ran cfgmgr then
># smit tcpip
>and from there used 'minimum config' to define the first interface,
>en0.
>and left other devices unconfigured.
What do you get from 'ifconfig -a', 'ifconfig en0', 'ifconfig en1',
'ifconfig et0' and 'ifconfig et1'
>
>Could anyone help me to come out of this problem.
>Thanks in Advance.
>Regards,
>Saravana
mj
Jim Trauzzi
> minutes to move to next code. Once I get the AIX logo it takes half an
> hour to show the next message. I am also not able to ping from AIX to
> even the gateway. All was fine some time back and trouble started
> after we change the static route table and then reconfigured the
> interfaces.Currently route table has nothing.
I had a similar problem in the past after we upgraded from aix 3.2.5
to 4.2. IBM changed the default lookup. With AIX 3.2.5 the system
would check the /etc/host file first. Since AIX 4.1 AIX looks for the
DNS server first.
It took as much as 30 min to get past LED581.
Try adding the line "hosts=local,bind" to the /etc/netsvc.conf file.
This should take care of the delay at LED 581.
Saravana
Thanks for your replies. I got the problem solved. As I configured
both en0 and en1 to same ip address there was a confusion. I enabled
en1 alone with the required ip address and disabled (status:down) en0
,then the system become fine and starts up quickly.Even if i enable
en0 it makes the system slow.
Thanks and Regards,
Saravana
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