[Info-vax] BL860c i2 Network Issues

[Mark DeArman]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:22:07 -0700 (PDT), funniray
<funniray10 at gmail.com> wrote:

>On Wednesday, March 16, 2022 at 3:06:11 PM UTC, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>> On 3/16/2022 10:53 AM, funniray wrote: 
>> 
>> > The OA is running firmware version 4.97 Jan 28 2021.
>> That's the version I'm running, also.
>> > I'm not quite sure what you mean by VC, but if you mean the ethernet switches both are running 15.0(2)SE11
>> I guess it depends on what modules you have in the interconnect bays; not all modules in the interconnect 
>> bays use the VirtualConnect firmware. 
>> 
>> I've got redundant "HP VC FlexFabric 10Gb/24-port" modules in slots 1/2 
>> 
>> With those, I'm using VirtualConnect firmware V4.85 
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>> -- Rob
>
>Alright, so I double checked and apparently networking doesn't work on Windows Server 2008 R2 for Itanium Based Systems either.
>Both of my i2 blades produce the same results where there's 16 interfaces and 6 interfaces are up. If I turn off 1 switch, then it drops to only 3 interfaces being up.
>DHCP doesn't work on any adaptor and setting a static IP doesn't work either.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions for what I can try?
>
>Thanks,
>Ethan

Did you look at the OA Portmapping for the blade just as a sanity
check?

Mark