Hey JD,<br><br>Howareya?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:07 AM, JD Austin <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jd@twingeckos.com">jd@twingeckos.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<font color="#3333ff"><font size="2"><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Anyone on the list have experience with SMEServer?<br>I&#39;m trying to get a new instance going and it keeps dropping the bridged network from eth0-&gt;eth1<br>

where it won&#39;t route traffic.  It did the same thing when I was running it virtualized on the same box under Proxmox (now it&#39;s running native). Restarting the network &#39;fixes&#39; it for awhile.  I&#39;m not sure if it&#39;s a bug in SMEServer or if it&#39;s a quirk of the hardware on this Dell Poweredge T110 server.  <br>

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SMEServer is based on CentOs/Fedora/Redhat.<br><br>udev will reassign the network card from one device to another, or from one interface to another if it has issues negotiating.<br><br>This is commonly seen with Dell PowerEdge servers running broadcom ethernet cards.<br>
Check your firmware and card versions against your kernel driver to verify conditions and consider adding:<br><br>1) udev hammered down ethernet configuration options<br><br><a href="http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/udev.htm">http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/udev.htm</a>  (I know this is not Debian, but udev is udev!)<br>
<br>2) change from/to autonegotiate (sensitive from some switches) to hammered down settings:<br><br>Autoneg and switch optimization:  <a href="http://serverfault.com/questions/106160/should-network-hardware-be-set-to-autonegotiate-speeds-or-fixed-speeds">http://serverfault.com/questions/106160/should-network-hardware-be-set-to-autonegotiate-speeds-or-fixed-speeds</a><br>
<br>&quot;eth-tool -s&quot;<br><br><a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-change-the-speed-and-duplex-settings-of-an-ethernet-card/">http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-change-the-speed-and-duplex-settings-of-an-ethernet-card/</a><br>
<br>Broadcom Information on neg:  <a href="http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/faq_drivers.php">http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/faq_drivers.php</a><br><br>3) static configuration options in Network Manager:<br>
<br>These can be manipulated as well, with routing information, ifup conditions and other tricks:<br><br><a href="http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/setting-up-an-network-interfaces-file/">http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/setting-up-an-network-interfaces-file/</a><br>
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