I have a very odd thing happening and I am looking for anything I may
have overlooked while troubleshooting...
(2) identical IBM 305 (8673-82x) machines equipped 100% the same
with dual onboard BGE gig NICs. Nothing else extra added.
Bios is same and options are setup exact.
Basically machine #2 is just a 'ready' backup for machine #1
and typically I build the OS on Machine #1 then 'clone' an identical
drive - toss it in machine #2 and test it. Usually thats never any issue.
I am unable to do this with OpenBSD 4.6 i386.
Thinking it was a mistake in the 'cloning', I took the drive out of
machine #1 and put it into machine #2. It boots fine. NIC shows gig
speed as expected - but while everything seems ok - the machine wont
communicate with my lan.
I rebooted the network switch in case it was an arp issue. Nope.
I then did a standalone fresh install on machine #2. No issues with
install or boot, but the same NO NETWORK.
If I install any other OS on machine #2, such as net or free - the
machine runs and performs fine.
I am at a total loss on this as it makes NO sense whatsoever but don't
know what else to check.
Anything left to check out that I missed?
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J.D. Bronson
