On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 1:49 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > JohnS wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 13:02 -0400, Wade Hampton wrote: >> >> >>> I can't ping the Solaris box >>> from any of the servers on my network. >>> >> --- >> That in it self should tell you to look at the cabling and nic card. I >> suspect its a very old nic card like ISA or begining PCI. Just because >> it is Sol 5 does not mean TCP/IP will not work. >> > > SunOS 5.7 is Solaris 7, actually. 'Solaris 10' is really SunOS 5.10. > > Bill Joy wrote the TCP stack thats in all Unix systems, and was copied > for Linux. There's nothing wrong with the TCP in any SunOS version > going as far back as you like. AFIK copied to Windows 2K and later as well.... > > btw, an older Sun Sparc is more likely to be SBUS and not ISA. If its > PCI, its likely 64bit and maybe 66Mhz. SBUS is a 32bit synchronous > bus thats somewhat slower at clock speed than 32bit 33MHz PCI, however > its capable of higher throughput due to being a more efficient bus protocol. Standard, old PCI. > > 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 ethernet driver is /dev/elx (/dev/elxl0 and /dev/elxl1). The card is a 3Com Etherlink XL PCI card connected to a 3Ccom switch. Trying ndd /dev/elx \? results in "couldn't push module 'elx'..... so no idea how to tune it. I can run ndd /dev/ip \? and I get a list of tuneables.... I've been copying data TO the Solaris box for years without problems (it is a test machine). However, when I try to get data back to my Linux server, the Solaris server seems to lose its networking and I have to reboot it. 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). I am about ready to go home as rebooting this Solaris is getting rather old. -- Wade Hampton