[OmniOS-discuss] igb0 'hangs'

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Steffen Kram wrote:

> Hi Tobi,
>
> I had a similar problem a while ago, when I was resetting the
> maxbw property without taking the interface down.  The global
> zone could not communicate over that interface anymore, while the
> zones where all happy.  Taking the interface down and up again
> solved my issue, too.

hmmm ... I have not fiddled with the interface at all before ...

I have now disabled HW flow-control ... maybe that helps

cheers
tobi

>
> Cheers,
> Steffen
>
> Am 19.01.2014 um 17:26 schrieb Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch>:
>
> > I just had an odd thing happening to my r151008 server. It suddenly
> > stopped communicating over its igb0 interface ...
> >
> > Upon further investigation I found:
> >
> > a) several KVM guests talking over the same physical interface were
> >   still happily chatting
> >
> > b) logging into the guests and trying to reach the server over that
> >   route did not work either.
> >
> > c) accessing the server via the hardware console revealed that it
> >   was working and did not seem to realize that igb0 was having a
> >   problem. At least dmesg did not show anyithing interesting.
> >
> >   once I did
> >
> >   # ipadm down-addr igb0/v4static
> >   # ipadm up-addr igb0/v4static
> >
> >   the interface started working again ...
> >
> > any idea what has happened here ?
> >
> > cheers
> > tobi
> >
> >
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