Interactions with mxge, pf, nfsd, and the kernel

[Bob Healey]

Looking further at the switch logs, the switch ports for both bce0 (host 
is not using, but contains dell idrac) and mxge0 seem to bounce up and 
down together, but they haven't done that since 7/1.

Bob Healey
Systems Administrator
Biocomputation and Bioinformatics Constellation
and Molecularium
healer at rpi.edu
(518) 276-4407

On 7/8/2014 9:25 AM, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> I've been running one of these machines without pf, and it has ceased
>> responding on all interfaces (mxge and bce).
>> The console still works fine
> Is a tcpdump on one of the interfaces seeing any traffic ? arp ? multicast ?
>
> Is a tcpdump seeing any outgoing packets if you send them ?
>
> If you plug in a cross cable to some other host, does it see
> bytes on the interface if you try to send traffic ?
>
> Does
>
> ifconfig <if> down
> ifconfig <if> up
>
> help ? Is the switch still seeing a link ? Does it change if you
> ifconfig down ?
>
> Does it change if you unplug and re-plug the cable ?
>