RE: Does anyone have software RAID 1 mirroring of / set up on Sparc?
Hmm, now I'm getting a kernel panic as the system prepares to REBOOT (i.e. while Linux shuts down services and unmounts filesystems in preparation for rebooting). This means that effectively every time we reboot the server we would have to use LOM to reset the chassis, which we really do not want. I've noticed that although the panic occurs when kernel tries to mount root *read-only* before restarting, the data on root gets out of sync between reboots. I can tell this because a minute or so after rebooting I see this on the console: md: md2: sync done. RAID1 conf printout: --- wd:2 rd:2 disk 0, wo:0, o:1, dev:sda4 disk 1, wo:0, o:1, dev:sdb4 Does anyone have any ideas on what might be causing this, and if there's a workaround for it? As it seems it might be related to the migration of root to md/addition of LVM, here's what my mount table looks like: /dev/md2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/md0 on /boot type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro) /dev/mapper/volgroup-lvol0 on /var type ext3 (rw) /dev/mapper/volgroup-lvol1 on /home type ext3 (rw) tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,size=10M,mode=0755) Below is the panic output: - Will now deactivate swap. swapoff on /dev/md1 Done deactivating swap. Will now unmount local filesystems. /dev/mapper/volgroup-lvol0 umounted /dev/mapper/volgroup-lvol1 umounted Could not find /dev/.static/dev in mtab /dev/.static/dev umounted /dev/md0 umounted Done unmounting local filesystems. Shutting down LVM Volume Groups... 0 logical volume(s) in volume group "volgroup" now active Mounting root files \|/ \|/ ystem read-only "@'/ .. \`@" .. /_| \__/ |_\ \__U_/ swapper(0): Kernel bad sw trap 5 [#1] TSTATE: 000811f09603 TPC: 00527c08 TNPC: 00527c0c Y: 000 0Not tainted TPC: g0: 0003 g1: 00a4 g2: 0001 g3: f f5c g4: f8103f48a4a0 g5: f8001bf98000 g6: f8103eff8000 g7: f8103eca4 018 o0: f8103eca4538 o1: f8103ec5cc18 o2: fae0 o3: 0 000 o4: 0010 o5: sp: f8103effa831 ret_pc: 0 047a7fc RPC: l0: ff5c l1: f8103ec5cc00 l2: f8103eca2ec0 l3: f8103eca2 ee0 l4: l5: 0001 l6: 07290400 l7: 0 000 i0: f8103f4aa9c0 i1: f8103ecbd380 i2: f8103eca4000 i3: 0 000 i4: f8103f492c18 i5: i6: f8103effa8f1 i7: 0047a 318 I7: Caller[0047a318]: kmem_cache_free+0x4c/0x7c Caller[00462d74]: mempool_free+0x88/0x98 Caller[00482f00]: bio_put+0x40/0x50 Caller[0047f9c0]: end_bio_bh_io_sync+0x50/0x64 Caller[004832a0]: bio_endio+0x7c/0x8c Caller[005f2c28]: raid_end_bio_io+0x34/0xa0 Caller[005f5b20]: raid1_end_write_request+0x264/0x2d4 Caller[004832a0]: bio_endio+0x7c/0x8c Caller[0050f088]: __end_that_request_first+0x1a8/0x4f4 Caller[005b5670]: scsi_end_request+0x18/0xe0 Caller[005b5908]: scsi_io_completion+0x1d0/0x474 Caller[005c903c]: sd_rw_intr+0x2d8/0x304 Caller[005af848]: scsi_finish_command+0xbc/0xcc Caller[0050e178]: blk_done_softirq+0x78/0x9c Caller[00444b70]: __do_softirq+0x4c/0xf8 Caller[00444c58]: do_softirq+0x3c/0x50 Caller[00408894]: tl0_irq4+0x14/0x20 Caller[0040f098]: cpu_idle+0x34/0x58 Caller[0042483c]: do_unlock+0x12c/0x140 Caller[4000]: 0x4000 Instruction DUMP: 0100 8532b01f 80a0a000 <93d03005> 9818 80a2a000 02 600123 96120009 80a2a010 Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! TSTATE: 008080f09606 TPC: 00672fcc TNPC: 00672fc0 Y: 000 0Not tainted TPC: <_write_unlock_irq+0x7c/0x124> g0: g1: 00ff g2: 1000 g3: 0 197 g4: f8103ecb9a00 g5: f8001bfa g6: f8103f47 g7: 0 080 o0: f8103ecbd3cc o1: f8103ecbd400 o2: o3: 0 000 o4: f8103ee75018 o5: sp: f8103f473331 ret_pc: 0 047a618 RPC: l0: 0001 l1: f8103f4aab28 l2: f8103ecbd3cc l3: 0 001 l4: l5: 0001 l6: l7: 3 eea i0: f8103f4aa9c0 i1: f8103ecbd380 i2: 0001 i3: 0 008 i4: i5: 00200200 i6: f8103f4733f1 i7: 00450 370 I7: <0>Press Stop-A (L1-A) to return to the boot prom This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the indi
RE: Does anyone have software RAID 1 mirroring of / set up on Sparc?
> However, when it comes to mounting / from the md the boot dies - at the > bottom of this email I've > pasted output of the last stage of the boot > process. Just to let you know, as I suspected, it was a udev problem. In my case it was because the new filesystem didn't contain the character special devices for console & null. Fixed by: 1. booting non-mirrored root 2. mount /dev/md2 /mnt 3. cd /mnt/dev 4. mknod console c 5 1 5. mknod null c 1 3 Everything's working now, but I find those messages about UUIDs being different between the various RAID members a bit annoying - anyone know how to fix that? This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email has been scanned for all viruses by the FFastFill Email Security System.
RE: Does anyone have software RAID 1 mirroring of / set up on Sparc?
Thanks for all your help Simon - I've updated the Openboot default boot to be partition 3 (All disk) and it works. We're so close... I did set things up slightly different to you, in that I created a separate /boot (partition 1, starting at cylinder 1, on each disk). After that I created swap and root partitions. After updating /etc/fstab for mirrored /boot & swap I can successfully boot into the system and can see that both are using the mirrors. However, when it comes to mounting / from the md the boot dies - at the bottom of this email I've pasted output of the last stage of the boot process. I can confirm that: I compiled kernel with all require storage drivers, RAID support & RAID1 compiled in I've set all of the RAID partitions as type 'fd'. I've created the RAID device /dev/md2 for / on /dev/sda4 & /dev/sdb4 I mkfs'd /dev/md2, mounted on /mnt and copied / to it using cp -ax / /mnt I updated /mnt/etc/fstab to use /dev/md2 for / I copied the existing silo.conf entry for my working, unmirrored root drive (sda5), gave it a unique silo label and added a statement root=/dev/md2 Here's what my .config has to say about RAID CONFIG_RAID_ATTRS=y # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_3W__RAID is not set # CONFIG_SCSI_AACRAID is not set # CONFIG_MEGARAID_NEWGEN is not set # CONFIG_MEGARAID_LEGACY is not set # CONFIG_MEGARAID_SAS is not set # Multi-device support (RAID and LVM) CONFIG_MD_RAID0=m CONFIG_MD_RAID1=y CONFIG_MD_RAID10=m CONFIG_MD_RAID5=m CONFIG_MD_RAID6=m And here's the boot output as promised (after the message 'Unable to open an initial console', the system has most definitely hung up its guns!): md: Autodetecting RAID arrays. md: autorun ... md: considering sdb4 ... md: adding sdb4 ... md: sdb2 has different UUID to sdb4 md: sdb1 has different UUID to sdb4 md: adding sda4 ... md: sda2 has different UUID to sdb4 md: sda1 has different UUID to sdb4 md: created md2 md: bind md: bind md: running: raid1: raid set md2 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors md: considering sdb2 ... md: adding sdb2 ... md: sdb1 has different UUID to sdb2 md: adding sda2 ... md: sda1 has different UUID to sdb2 md: created md1 md: bind md: bind md: running: raid1: raid set md1 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors md: considering sdb1 ... md: adding sdb1 ... md: adding sda1 ... md: created md0 md: bind md: bind md: running: raid1: raid set md0 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors md: ... autorun DONE. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. Warning: unable to open an initial console. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email has been scanned for all viruses by the FFastFill Email Security System.
RE: Does anyone have software RAID 1 mirroring of / set up on Sparc?
Hi Simon, > It is quite tricky to get right. You might find this old post (about > setting up Sarge with root on RAID-1 on my Netra) helpful: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2005/07/msg00143.html I tried something along the lines of what you advised, but can you confirm that you have to create your 1st partition (in my case /boot) starting at cylinder 1? I am unable to boot the system without doing a 'boot disk0:x' (where x is the partition containing /boot). When trying a straight 'boot' (i.e. boot disk0) I get the error message 'The file just loaded does not appear to be executable'. Also, the Silo docs say for the -t option: "Stores the boot block into the same partition as the second stage loader. By default, when using a SCSI or an IDE disk, SILO writes the boot block into the master boot (the boot block of the partition starting at cylinder 0). This behaviour can be changed with the "-t" argument." Of course, I don't have any partition starting at cylinder 0. I'd really appreciate if you could tell me how I can make Silo put something into cylinder 0 so that a normal boot will work? Cheers Ashley This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email has been scanned for all viruses by the FFastFill Email Security System.
Does anyone have software RAID 1 mirroring of / set up on Sparc?
Hi all, I've been struggling with this for the last few days but no matter what I do I cannot get a mirrored root filesystem on my V240. Generally what happens is that SILO refuses to boot from the partition as soon as it's changed to type 'fd' (RAID autodetect). Other times it starts to boot but only gets as far as single user mode and then cannot mount root properly. The way I've been working is like this: 1. install Debian to /dev/sda: /dev/sda1 - 3 GB swap /dev/sda2 - 10 GB root /dev/sda4 - 20 GB /var /dev/sda5 - 15 GB /home /dev/sda3 becomes the Sparc 'all disk' partition. NB I also tried a separate /boot partition but that didn't work either. 2. download and compile the 2.6.16.1 kernel, compiling in general RAID support, RAID1, and all required filesystems and storage drivers. 3. partition /dev/sdb as per /dev/sda. 4. create mirrors for each partition on /dev/sdb but putting the first member as 'missing': i.e. mdadm --create /dev/md0 --auto --verbose --level=1 --raid-devices=2 missing /dev/sda2 5. make filesystems for each partition and copy the data: i.e. mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0 mount /dev/md0 /mnt cp -dpRx / /mnt 6. fdisk and set partition types of RAID partitions on /dev/sdb to type 'fd' (Linux RAID autodetect) 7. update /etc/fstab to point to the new md devices. 8. reboot - everything's ok at this point and mount tells me that we are using the md devices. This leads me to believe that we are now using the md devices on /dev/sdb. 9. then I try to add the partitions on /dev/sda to the md devices: i.e. mdadm --add /dev/md0 /dev/sda2 ...but it fails, telling me the resource is busy. I believe this is because SILO still references /dev/sda2 and so the system is still actually mounting /dev/sda2 as root partition in spite of what /etc/fstab says. 10. now I edit silo.conf and add the following to the kernel entry for the kernel I'm trying to boot partition=/dev/md0 append="md=0,/dev/sda2,/dev/sdb2" 11. usually at this point SILO will refuse to even bring up the boot prompt. 12. I reboot using the Debian CD and change silo.conf to use /dev/sdb2 directly (instead of as a metadevice). 13. reboot again and then encounter a kernel panic when trying to pivot root. I would love to hear if anyone else has guidelines on how to set this up. Can anyone confirm that SILO can actually boot from a device that has partition type of 'fd' (Linux RAID Autodetect)? Is my silo.conf syntax correct? Or does anyone know of a Linux LiveCD distro for Sparc that I could use to set up the mirrors before starting the Debian install? Thanks Ashley This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email has been scanned for all viruses by the FFastFill Email Security System.
Etch beta 2 on Sunfire V240 with 2.6.16-1 kernel - works fantastic
Just to let you know, Etch with the 2.6.16-1 kernel from Sid/Unstable works great! Even the Broadcom tg3 NICs are working properly (although I needed udev rules to fix their names as they seem to change names randomly between reboots as they are enumerated). Many thanks Jurij for his assistance. Procedure to install: 1. Install a PCI NIC that is known to work on Sparc Linux (i.e. 3Com 3C59x or similar) 2. Install from Debian Etch beta http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ 3. Allow the installation to complete and reboot from the hard disk. At this point the system will hang on rebooting into the new Linux environment - 'Switching root ' 4. Boot the Etch CD again and type rescue at the Silo boot prompt. 5. Drop out of the installer to the ash shell (select Go Back then choose the shell option from the Debian installer menu) 6. Mount all filesystems and chroot into the new system (partitions below are for my system, yours may vary): mkdir /mnt mount /dev/sda2 /mnt mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/usr mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/var chroot /mnt /bin/bash 7. Mount your pseudo filesystems and bring up your network interfaces: mount /proc mount /sys ifconfig lo up ifconfig eth0 netmask 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.64 route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 192.168.0.254 8. Add the sid repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list 9. apt-get update && apt-get install linux-image-2.6.16-1-sparc64-smp 10. update /etc/silo.conf and add the new kernel 11. Reboot into Linux/Sparc joy! This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email has been scanned for all viruses by the FFastFill Email Security System.
RE: More on installing Etch beta 2 on Sunfire V240
Hi Daniel, Thanks for that! The new SILO seems to work fine with the 2.6.16 kernel I compiled myself. However, I've just tried booting the Debian 2.6.15 kernel from Etch with the new SILO and that still doesn't work. It looks likely that Jurij is correct with his theory that initrd is the culprit. Cheers Ashley > -Original Message- > From: Daniel J. Priem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 24 March 2006 18:13 > To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: More on installing Etch beta 2 on Sunfire V240 > > Uploaded. > please check it. > > http://flexserv.de/docu/sparc/ > > Regards > Daniel This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email has been scanned for all viruses by the FFastFill Email Security System.
RE: Etch beta 2 now working on Sunfire V240 with vanilla 2.6.16 compiled from source
The final instalment in my monologue (for now): OK, if you follow my previous instructions on booting the Netinst CD and chrooting into the installed Debian environment, you can then download, compile and install the vanilla 2.6.16 kernel, and it works. It seems that the Debian-patched 2.6.15 kernel doesn't like the V240 and family. As you can imagine, I'm a very happy chappy! Rules of thumb: 1. Install a PCI NIC that is known to work on Sparc Linux (i.e. 3Com 3C59x or similar) 2. Install from Debian Etch beta http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ 3. Partition so that your 1st partition is ext2 for /boot, and fully resident within the first 1 GB of the disk. Create other partitions for swap, / etc. 4. Allow the installation to complete and reboot from the hard disk. At this point the system will hang on rebooting into the new Linux environment - 'Switching root ' 5. Boot the Etch CD again and type Rescue at the Silo boot prompt. 6. Drop out of the installer to the ash shell (select Go Back then choose the shell option from the Debian installer menu) 7. Mount all filesystems and chroot into the new system (partitions below are for my system, yours may vary): mkdir /mnt mount /dev/sda2 /mnt mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/usr mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/var chroot /mnt /bin/bash 8. Mount your pseudo filesystems and bring up your network interfaces: mount /proc mount /sys ifconfig lo up ifconfig eth0 netmask 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.64 route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 192.168.0.254 9. You should now be able to use apt-get to get ncurses-dev which you'll need if you want to 'make menuconfig' 10. You can now use wget to download and compile a new kernel from the kernel sources, then copy the binary to /boot and add an entry to /boot/silo.conf. 11. Reboot into Linux/Sparc joy! If anyone would like assistance getting Debian working on a V240 (or similar), email me. Cheers Ash This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email has been scanned for all viruses by the FFastFill Email Security System.
More on installing Etch beta 2 on Sunfire V240
A couple of things I forgot to mention last night: > -Original Message- > I've managed to kind of get Testing working on my V240 using the beta > netinst image located here: http://www.nl.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ Also, I had to open the V240 and install a 3Com 3C905C-TX to get the machine on the network - neither the onboard Broadcom nor the Qfe/HappyMeal interfaces would work (the latter still send frames with a MAC address which is offset from their actual burned-in address!) I've now downloaded the Silo 1.4.11 sources and am trying to compile them, but when I run 'make' I encounter the below problem. Two of Silo's dependencies come from the kernel sources, so I had to install the 2.6.15 sources and copy include/linux/ext2_fs.h to the Silo source tree's include/ext2fs subdir. I suspect the kernel sources have changed substantially and that Silo development hasn't kept pace for whatever reason. Is anyone running Etch on Sparc and able to compile Silo 1.4.11? --- In file included from /usr/include/linux/percpu_counter.h:13, from /usr/include/linux/ext2_fs_sb.h:20, from ../include/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h:20, from ./file.h:22, from file.c:23: /usr/include/linux/percpu.h: In function '__alloc_percpu': /usr/include/linux/percpu.h:45: error: 'GFP_KERNEL' undeclared (first use in thi s function) /usr/include/linux/percpu.h:45: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported o nly once /usr/include/linux/percpu.h:45: error: for each function it appears in.) In file included from ../include/ext2fs/ext2_fs.h:20, from ./file.h:22, from file.c:23: /usr/include/linux/ext2_fs_sb.h: At top level: /usr/include/linux/ext2_fs_sb.h:49: error: syntax error before 'u32' /usr/include/linux/ext2_fs_sb.h:51: error: syntax error before '*' token /usr/include/linux/ext2_fs_sb.h:56: error: syntax error before '}' token file.c: In function 'register_silo_inode': [ warnings and stuff deleted ]. make[1]: *** [file.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/silo/silo-1.4.11/second' make: *** [all] Error 1 This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email has been scanned for all viruses by the FFastFill Email Security System.
RE: sarge on Sunfire V240
I've managed to kind of get Testing working on my V240 using the beta netinst image located here: After completing a full install I encountered a hang on boot - just after the infamous 'Switching root ...' message, but there were a couple of messages below it about ext3. I booted the netinst CD again and selected rescue mode. I dropped out to the ash shell and did the following: 1. Mount all filesystems: # mkdir /mnt # mount /dev/sda2 /mnt # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot # mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/usr # mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/var 2. Chroot into /mnt # chroot /mnt /bin/bash 3. Mount /proc and /sys (which are in /etc/fstab already) # mount /proc # mount /sys 4. Connect your Ethernet cable and determine the name of the interface (note that for me the interface enumeration got all mixed up and what had been eth0 at install time was now eth4) 5. Use mii-tool to tell you which interface(s) have have a link # mii-tool 6. Bring up the connected Ethernet interface(s) # ifconfig eth4 netmask 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.64 # route add -net 0.0.0.0 netmask 0.0.0.0 gw 192.168.0.254 7. Confirm name resolution is working and that your /etc/resolv.conf has the correct nameserver(s) # nslookup www.google.com 8. Now you should be able to apt-get update && apt-get upgrade etc I suspect that the kernel hangs we're seeing are occurring when the kernel hands over to init to continue the boot process. Does anyone know how I might be able to troubleshoot? Cheers Ashley > -Original Message- > From: Ashley Hooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 23 March 2006 15:27 > To: Robin Stevens; debian-sparc@lists.debian.org > Subject: RE: sarge on Sunfire V240 > > > -Original Message- > > From: Robin Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > I've been attempting to do a sarge install on a Sunfire V240 system > > (single CPU, 1GB RAM). > > [Ashley Hooper] > I am also waiting on a workaround to get any version of Debian onto the > Sparc (preferably Testing) > > > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they > are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This email has been scanned for all viruses by the FFastFill Email > Security System. > This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email has been scanned for all viruses by the FFastFill Email Security System.
RE: sarge on Sunfire V240
> -Original Message- > From: Robin Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I've been attempting to do a sarge install on a Sunfire V240 system > (single CPU, 1GB RAM). [Ashley Hooper] I am also waiting on a workaround to get any version of Debian onto the Sparc (preferably Testing) This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email has been scanned for all viruses by the FFastFill Email Security System.
Re: RE: SunFire v240
I’m trying to get at the Debian repos in the hope that a different kernel version will fix this problem. After failing to get any form of networking happening with the onboard Broadcom 4-way interface, I’ve installed a Sun ‘Happy Meal’ 4-way NIC, and have noticed a very bizarre anomaly. After plugging an Ethernet cable into the 1st interface on the Happy Meal (alias eth4) and booting into rescue mode from the Debian Testing netinst CD, and broadcasting for a DHCP IP address, I see the below in tcpdump: 07:27:25.605818 IP 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps: BOOTP/DHCP, Request from 00:03:ba:6c:e5:36 (oui Unknown), length: 300 Yet the interface MAC addresses are as follows: ~ # ifconfig | grep 'eth' eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:BA:74:23:C9 eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:BA:74:23:CA eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:BA:74:23:C7 eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:BA:74:23:C8 eth4 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:BA:6C:F5:36 eth5 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:BA:6C:F5:37 eth6 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:BA:6C:F5:38 eth7 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:BA:6C:F5:39 Note that in the 2nd to last octet, the ifconfig utility reports ‘F5’, where tcpdump is seeing ‘E5’. With a statically-configured IP address, and booted into rescue mode (kernel 2.6.15-1-sparc64) using ping, ARPs originating on the V240 can be seen also using an incorrect MAC address: 08:00:22.179511 00:03:ba:6c:e5:36 (oui Unknown) > ff:ff:ef:ff:ff:ff (oui Unknown), ethertype ARP (0x0806), length 60: arp who-has 10.10.0.1 tell 10.10.0.2 Repeating the exercise with the onboard Broadcom interface, no DHCP request is even seen by TCPDUMP so I can only assume that the Broadcom is either not properly supported or is actually as bad as everyone says. This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email has been scanned for all viruses by the FFastFill Email Security System.
