>>> On 5/17/2012 at 11:52 AM, "Levy, Alan" <[email protected]> wrote: > We have a problem with a linux server that when we reboot it, it takes at > least 15 minutes to be able to ssh into. > > It seems, from out network traces, that when the server reboots, it has 2 > mac addresses in the arp tables on the firewall (one from before and one > from after the reboot). > > We cannot ping or ssh into the server after the reboot. Yesterday, we > rebooted it. The network group ran traces, captured packets, etc and we found > that if we pinged the network gateway address from this server, everything > started working again.
Is this a z/VM guest, or an LPAR? If a guest, is it being logged off between the shutdown and IPL? If so, it sounds like you have LLADDR specified for the MAC, which you should remove. Having this coded in /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth? was a bug which should have been fixed for SP2. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
