Sean Boudreau(deleted)
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Re: ifconfig, qnet, io-pkt
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Sean Boudreau(deleted)
11/12/2009 9:43 AM
post41836
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Re: ifconfig, qnet, io-pkt
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 05:58:26PM -0500, Kevin Stallard wrote:
> I've encountered some interesting behavior that intertwines ifconfig/tcpip with qnet.
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> The qnet stack is running, but it is not going over tcp/ip. If I do an ifconfig fxp0 down on the node, qnet traffic
appears to stop for a while, then begins again.
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> I noticed it when I did a
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> on -f node ifconfig down
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> qnet traffic stopped, but then after a few minutes came back up again.
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> I found a post where an IP address was being set with ifconfig that suggested the NIC may be reinitialized by this
step.
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> Is this so? Is there a way to prevent ifconfig from interfering with qnet?
If a link is marked down it shouldn't be operational.
If qnet happens to work on it that's probably a bug
but it might happen with older io-net based drivers
via the shim.
-seanb
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