Hello Richard,
Thursday, September 4, 2003, 9:54:27 PM, you wrote:
Richard Crawford> We have SunBlade 100's in our office, running Solaris 8.
Richard Crawford> Yesterday afternoon, one of our dataports died. The computer that
was
Richard, could you please explain to me what is dataport ? And how
Blade 100 connects with it ?
Richard Crawford> hooked up to it croaked as well, and at first we assumed the
computer
Richard Crawford> itself was at fault (I didn't assume this, our regular Windows guy
assumed
Richard Crawford> this). While the first machine was up to have its OS rebuilt (is
this
Richard Crawford> overkill?) we tried another SunBlade in the same dataport. Again,
the
Richard Crawford> machine hangs when trying to reboot. It gets as far as trying to
set up
Richard Crawford> the IPv4 multicast interface before freezing.
Richard Crawford> Does this make sense? Shouldn't the computer continue to boot even
if it
Richard Crawford> can't establish a network connection?
Yes, it should. After all you can pull out the cable and the system
will still boot.
Regards,
Peter
P.S. And yes - in *nix world OS rebuild is definitely an overkill ;-)
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Peter Kirkov
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