PE2650 and eth0 on bootup

BlueFusion · Guru Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 371

Hello all,

I have been using Gentoo as my primary desktop OS for over a year now and consider myself an intermediate to advanced user. To date, all my problems experience I have been able to solve in a short amount of time. But alas, I have been having some issues this weekend.

Last Friday, I received a Dell PowerEdge 2650 I bought off of eBay for development purposes. I have been using Linux on servers long before I used Gentoo, however have never physically had contact with the servers before (dedicated, not colo). Gentoo installed fine as usual. Everything is updated and compiled with the proper CFLAGS.

So here's the problem. When the system comes online, eth0 does not start properly (eth1 not plugged in, but returns same results if I use eth1 instead). The init scripts assigns it the proper IP, 192.168.1.10, but when it adds the default gateway, 192.168.1.1, it says it is unable to reach the network. Manually setting the IP and gateway with ifconfig and route with the same settings returns same result. If, however, I use a different IP than that of it tried to boot up with, say 192.168.1.11, and then add the default gw, it works flawlessly. It happens despite what the IP is in the net config. All the IPS I've tried were free. DHCP is not suitable for this, either, thus I have not tried to see what that would do.

Any ideas to fix this so I don't need to plug in a monitor and keyboard each time I reboot the server?

Thanks for your help!
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exklusve · Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 8:55 pm Post subject:

I have somewhat of a silimar issue with a PE1750.
Sometimes it will assign the static IP address and it will work fine, but sometimes i can't ping other machines or the gateway. So I'll run dhcpcd and it will start working for a while. Then it will stop working, and i'll do a /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart to get my static IP back and it will work for a while again.
Not sure what changed, but now it works fine with the static IP address, but I cannot ping past it's gateway.
Not a network issue because other servers on the same segment and switch can get past the gateway.

Maybe our issues are related somehow?

Please post if you find anything. I'll see if i can get more info about my problem.
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BlueFusion · Guru Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 371

Unfortunately the server is back home in the basement and I am stuck on campus for atleast the next 2 weeks. I have SSH access to it of course, but my family is not technologically advanced enough to plug in the monitor and keyboard and do what's necessary.

The issues may be related, but when I do restart net.eth0 or manually set the IP after init tried to start it with that IP, it will not work.

Here's my lspci if it helps: