I've been receiving the following and have been ignoring it since everything appeared to be running okay. But, I got a little curious and thought I'd ask around to see if anyone knows the "right" way to get rid of it.
kernel: qeth: setip : return code 0xe005 (duplicate ip address) kernel: qeth: was not able to set ip fe80:0000:0000:0000:0002:5500:009a:b693/64 on irq x0 kernel: eth0: duplicate address detected! What I've been able to determine is that it only occurs if you have more than one LPAR sharing the card. Intra-LPAR sharing (multiple VM guests) appears to be okay as the v6 addr changes with the MAC address. (Although, I could swear I saw it happen once or twice.) SLES8 uses the "ip" command to bring up the card and when it does, it appears that the QETH driver automagically puts in the v6 addr for us. Unfortunately, it's based on the MAC addr and is the same across LPARs. Best I could come up with was to add an "ip addr flush..." immediately following the "...set up..." command in the "ifup" script. It works...it taint perfect...there's gotta be a better way...any ideas? Versions: z/VM Version 4 Release 3.0, Service Level 0301 (64-bit) Linux tux 2.4.19-4suse-SMP #1 SMP Sat Oct 11 00:08:23 CDT 2003 s390x unknown QDIO OSA-Express driver ($Revision: 1.260.2.24 $) iproute2-2.4.7-135 Thanks much, Leland CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail communication and any attachments may contain confidential and privileged information for the use of the designated recipients named above. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.
