On 03/28/2010 05:04 AM, Wade Hampton wrote:
me, I'd get on the console (most Sparc's newer than about 10 years old have a ALOM or RSC or whatever remote console module you can telnet or ssh to, older ones were almost all serial console, which is typically connected to a cyclades type console controller you can ssh to), and run some diags from there (check dmesg for any events, check ifconfig, ndd, and verify the settings, see if you can ping, etc)
Thanks. The Solaris server is on PC hardware and is running CDE. I can log into it even when it can't connect to the network.
The last thing that wireshark displays is a bunch of ACK's from my Linux box to the Solaris box (there are multiple connections open).
It stops working after sending a certain amount of traffic, so your network conf if probably okay. I've seen this before with a card that was in the process of dying. You could rule this out by swapping in a spare NIC that you know works. If its old hardware, re-plugging the NIC or using a different PCI slot may help. If it does help, its probably only a temporary fix and you should be planning for some new hardware :-(
Kal