Hi Ling,

I wish it was that simple but unfortunately not. The mgt node is plugged
into port 45 and port 43 currently doesn't have anything plugged into it.

NIck

On 9 September 2015 at 06:54, Ling Gao <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Nick,
>     Maybe port 43 is the port that connects to the xCAT management node?
>
>
> Ling Gao
> Poughkeepsie Unix Development Lab
> IBM Systems and Technology Group
> Internal: T/L 293-5692
> External: [email protected], 845-433-5692
>
> "I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough." --- Albert
> Einstein
>
>
>
> From:        Nick Evans <[email protected]>
> To:        [email protected]
> Date:        09/07/2015 05:34 AM
> Subject:        [xcat-user] Discovery question
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> Hi xcatters,
>
> I am currently working with switch discovery of compute nodes connected to
> a Cisco 3750 switch.
>
> I had originally only configured the ports on the switch that actually had
> something plugged into them and then tried to do a discovery. The attached
> file is the configuration of the ports that i started with
>
> Watching the messages log i found the following message
> Sep  7 18:31:58 mgt xcat[80098]: Error communicating with
> ms-h25-mgtobm-1g-40: Unable to get MAC entries via either BRIDGE or Q-BRIDE
> MIB
>
>
> After 3 days of frustration and going round and round in circles i found
> that if i set
>     switchport access vlan 415
> on port 1/0/43 all of a sudden the discovery starts working.
>
> I have no idea why and can't explain this. If anyone could shed some light
> on what is special about port 43 or the configuration of it i would be most
> appreciative.
>
> Thanks for your help in advance
> Nick Evans[attachment "switch.txt" deleted by Ling Gao/Poughkeepsie/IBM]
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