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Obsolete Releases => SME Server 8.x => Topic started by: stabilys on July 28, 2016, 12:16:07 PM
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Hello all,
I am upgrading the network connection on an HP ML350 G6 running SME 8.2 to 10Gb-E SFP+ (this is part of a system migration to a KVM-hosted virtual SME with remote filesystem, see my problems with iSCSI persistence, the ML350 will be replaced after the New Year so is not going to be upgraded to SME 9 or 10 -- anticipating some questions).
I have an HP-supported (expensive!) 2-port SFP+ network card which is recognised by the system on boot up, and I can select it as the default NIC from the admin console, I can manually set the ports up, but it is not in use, and the system complains about the MAC address being wrong.
On more recent systems I would delete the /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules stanza so it would get rebuilt. Messing with the /etc/udev/60-net.rules achieved nothing so where's the MAC cached?
I don't know what the equivalent to fix this is on SME 8.2 and some mild searching has not given me a clue.
Can someone give me a clue, please?
TIA!
MeJ
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your best bet is to search for info about Centos 5.11 (which is the underlaying base OS).. first of all you'd be sure your hw is fully supported on it..
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I can manually set the ports up, but it is not in use, and the system complains about the MAC address being wrong.
You should open a bug explaining what do you mean by "it's not in use" and "system complains about the MAC address being wrong"
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Thank you both, more reading...
I will note and report the detailed error when I am back on site. Obviously I can't do this over ssh so am working with small console display which is hard to grab...
MeJ
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Colour me stoopid -- I forgot that SME only supports 2 NICs :shock:
And the system has two NICs on board, enabled, though only one in use.
So I will disable one of them and see if the added card is then configured.
Duh. If this is the case, sorry to waste ppls time :(
Of course I only worked this out after working through every other possibility :)
MeJ
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I am upgrading the network connection on an HP ML350 G6 running SME 8.2 to 10Gb-E SFP+...
If you want to use new hardware, then you really should be scheduling upgrade to SME9.x. Support for new hardware in RHEL5/CentOS5/SME8 is patchy.
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Late reply because I only just got notified - (?) anyway, Charlie of course you are correct, and they will be upgrading probably at Christmas. This was just part of a workaround for data movement prior to the move, but it ain't going to happen so I have done something else. Thanks! Closed.