[ale] NIC troubles

Dow Hurst Dow.Hurst at mindspring.com
Fri May 20 16:49:13 EDT 2005


If you take eth0:0 down does eth1 still give errors and collisions?  
And, vice versa?  Let's prove your interfaces are working separately 
without problems first.
Dow


Ryan Fish wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>After completing a server move from one DC to another I have been putting out small fires.  This one, though, has left me scratching my head so far...
>
>OS: RHEL ES3
>
>There are two NICs in this server: one for public and one for private.  For some reason it appears there is a conflict between the second IP on the first NIC (eth0:0) and the only IP on the second NIC (eth1).  See below:
>
>eth0:0    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:1F:04:76:89  
>          inet addr:209.168.xxx.xxx  Bcast:209.168.xxx.xxx  Mask:255.255.255.240
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:4678729 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:4455288 errors:38 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:374563 txqueuelen:1000 
>          RX bytes:1819725445 (1735.4 Mb)  TX bytes:950192933 (906.1 Mb)
>          Interrupt:16 
>
>eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:1F:04:76:8A  
>          inet addr:192.168.3.xxx  Bcast:192.168.3.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>          RX packets:4678729 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>          TX packets:4455288 errors:38 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>          collisions:374563 txqueuelen:1000 
>          RX bytes:1819725445 (1735.4 Mb)  TX bytes:950192933 (906.1 Mb)
>          Interrupt:17
>
>As can be seen by the MAC addresses these are not the same NIC.  However, all of the stats (RX/TX/collisions, etc) are exactly the same between them while eth0 is behaving nicely.
>
>Any suggestions on why this happening and where I should look to correct it?
>
>Thank you in advance.
>-Ryan
>
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