Oops, I can't type :-) -----Original Message----- From: Stanley, Jon Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 6:39 PM To: vlan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Problem with initialization On an RHEL4 system (HP DL360G3, with the vlan_init package distributed by HP), when I reboot the server, the network interfaces do not function - they do not transmit traffic. They receive traffic just fine, and on the correct virtual interface, and the received traffic can be inspected with tcpdump. The transmit counter does not increment in either the output of ifconfig, or in /proc/net/vlan/eth0.<vid>. The kernel routing table and route cache look normal, and I'm at a loss to explain it. The fix to this is to do an /etc/init.d/vlan restart, so I added some logging to that script at every point that it actually does something, and there is no difference between the output when the system boots and it doesn't work, and when I manually restart it and it does work. I was thinking it may be a module ordering problem, so I put the following into /etc/modprobe.conf: alias eth0 tg3 alias eth1 tg3 install tg3 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install tg3 ; /sbin/modprobe 8021q BTW, this also happens on an RHEL3 system, but the whole VLAN driver there is supplied by HP, not just the init stuff. The vlan init script comes after the general network one, so that the interface is up and available prior to vconfig being run. Any suggestions? -Jon
