[Info-vax] BL860c i2 Network Issues

[funniray]

On Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 1:55:58 PM UTC, kasp... at fit.cvut.cz wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 1:16:57 PM UTC+1, funniray wrote: 
> > Hi all, 
> > 
> > I can't seem to figure out how to get networking to work on my BL860c i2 blades. My BL860c blades work fine in the same C7000 chassis running the same version of VMS though (8.4-2L3). 
> > 
> > Whenever I go to setup networking, it shows 16 different interfaces. I've tried to manually assign IPs to all of these interfaces, but I couldn't ping any of them. I've also tried DHCP on all of the interfaces and all of them failed to get DHCP addresses. My BL860c (non-i2) blades are able to retrieve IPs over DHCP and they work fine on OpenVMS. Additionally, I remember being able to install windows on this same blade and get an IP address on it. 
> > 
> > I should also mention that if I do MC LANCP SHO DEV /CHA, none of the mac addresses shown in the command are the same mac addresses that iLO claims this blade has (for example, the command shows a mac address of 00-21-5A-9C-36-1A when iLO says the mac address should be close to AC:16:2D:91:52:BA 
> > 
> > If this helps, the blade switch I'm using is a gigabit Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 and the NIC in the blade just shows as a Flex-10 Embedded Ethernet. 
> > 
> > I'm able to send more details if needed.

> Hi, 
> you need to check/change the vlan configuration in cisco switches. 
> There is an important feature: the c7000 requires separate vlans/ip 
> networks on blade management ports and on blade NIC ports. 
> You can access namagement ports from blade NIC ports only if they are 
> on separate IP address ranges connected using an external router. 
> Jiri

Hey there Jiri,
I do have all the switchports for all blades tagged to a VLAN with the correct trunk set to my uplink to router.
All of my other blades work fine with this network configuration except for these i2 blades (including my other BL860c blades).
I can try to remove all vlan traffic and just have all of the blades on the default vlan for testing.

With that being said, do you or anyone else know why 16 interfaces show up for my BL860c i2 blades when there should only be 4?

Ethan