Hello admins..
Thanks to all the people who replied:
poffen@San-Jose.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Jigang Liu <jigang@bit.csc.lsu.edu>
john@starinc.com (John Malick)
bleary@state.ma.us
Bob Peddycord <BOBP@ws66.ci.winston-salem.nc.us>
uvaghela@mpc-uk.com (Umesh Vaghela)
bismark@alta.jpl.nasa.gov (Bismark Espinoza)
David Staggs <staggsd@SEOUL-FKJ3.KOREA.ARMY.MIL>
Rahul Roy <roy@bluestone.com>
Kurt Stype <kstype@bani.com>
Kai Schwermann <schwermann@uni-X.net>
karen.svirsky@citicorp.com (Karen Svirsky [Citibank NAGF])
The original problem was...:
>hello admins..
>
>After working a whole day long in our SS20 with Solaris 2.5..
>I come today and found out that it won't communicate with the network!!
>
>I found this in /var/adm/messages:
>
>le0: No carrier - cable disconnected or hub link test disabled?
>le0: No carrier - cable disconnected or hub link test disabled?
>
>The cable is in right shape (as yesterday) and the machine next
>to it communicates with everyone..
>
>netstat -r says:
>Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface
>-------------------------------------------------------------
>localhost localhost UH 0 0 lo0
>200.1.21.0 llico U 3 0 le0
>224.0.0.0 llico U 3 0 le0
>
>llico is the hostname and it's 200.1.21.8.
>
>ifonfig is set alright...
>
And the answers...
1.- The most helpful was from poffen@San-Jose.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger):
>The cable could still be the culprit. For a test, halt the machine down to the
>boot prompt, then try "test net". It should succeed on both internal and
>external loopback tests for the interface that is being used. You can also try
>"watch-net-all", it will print a "." for each packet seen on the net.
>
>This will at least help you verify that hardware and cable are OK.
and in fact the AUI external test failed!
so I moved the cables around and then chenged it to a similar one and
the AUI test passwd OK..but still it wouldn't ping.
>From the software lab downstairs the admin told me that these tranceivers are
VERY VERY sensible to heat, so I opened 3 windows, the door (made an air tunnel) and put the tranceiver attached to a PC fan.
After taking out the CDE daemon and testing it via no-X, it pinged!!!
I thought maybe it could be CDE?? so I ran openwin (openlook), it pinged!!!
then ran CDE like /usr/dt/bin/dtlogin -daemon and it pinged!!
Was it CDE or the heat? beats me...
I am an EE and find this INCREDIBLE !!! (not too mentioned $%^$%%$^ )
2.- Other answers pointed to the cable connecctions and to assure that
they were plugged correctly and tightly..
Thanks to all the people that took their time to help out..
regards,
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