From: Richard Genthner <rgenthner@symplicity.com>
To: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Kexec Reboot Network Issue
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:35:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C3F2ACF.60601@symplicity.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100715142003.GB19856@verge.net.au>
I would try a different kenerl but our cluster fs has us locked to this
kernel until we finish the upgrade to the new cluster fs version. heres
ethtool on the iface
from lshw
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 21
serial: 00:25:64:3b:9c:ae
size: 1GB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd
autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes
driver=tg3 driverversion=3.93 duplex=full firmware=5721-v3.65, ASFIPMI
v6.25 ip=172.16.1.123 latency=0 link=yes module=tg3 multicast=yes
port=twisted pair speed=1GB/s
On 07/15/2010 10:20 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 07:59:07AM -0400, Richard Genthner wrote:
>
>> I'm currently using the following string:
>>
>> kexex --type=elf-x86_64 --args-linux -l /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-12.el5
>> --initrid=/boot/initrd-2.6.18-128.el6.img --append="`cat
>> /proc/cmdline`"
>> kexec -e
>>
>> Some times we can get to the box from any subnet, other times we can
>> only get to the box from the same subnet only. Our solution to this
>> is to down the iface and then restart networking. Has anyone else
>> run into this issue?
>>
> Hi Richard,
>
> could you be more specific about which NIC you are using?
> And is it at all possible to test a newer kernel version?
>
> What I suspect is happening is that the NIC is getting into an unknown
> state. And what I'm hoping is that is a problem thats already been
> addressed.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-15 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-15 11:59 Kexec Reboot Network Issue Richard Genthner
2010-07-15 14:20 ` Simon Horman
2010-07-15 15:35 ` Richard Genthner [this message]
2010-07-16 7:15 ` Simon Horman
2010-07-18 4:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
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