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Your are correct, sort of. The MAC address of any IP address a system is communicating with will either be it's its ARP table OR the system will send our an ARP packed seeking to obtain that MAC address. However, even if every single piece of network gear between system "A" and system "i" was replaced the MAC address of System "A" and that of system "i" will remain the same. Those addresses will either be the burned in address of their respective Ethernet cards or an overridden address in the *LIND object. So despite a wholesale change in the network gear the tables on each end do not change. But if the switches change, or worse, only one switch changes, the path TO those MAC addresses might change. Since we know the "i" was moved to a new switch, that old switch needs to 'learn' that the 'i' (or more correctly it's MAC address) is now somewhere else. Something has to happen for it to learn that. One way is for the tables in the old switch to 'age out'. Another way is for the 'i' to send out a gratuitous ARP entry advertising it's new location, a third is for traffic from the 'i' to enter that switch from a port it's not expected to enter on (OH you're over THERE!) Until at least one of those things happen, that switch could be dumping traffic and communications is broken.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

On 4/14/2011 12:04 PM, Dennis wrote:
I disagree (respectfully). ARP has hardware addresses (i.e. MAC addresses) of the systems on its local network. If the MAC address changes - regardless of IP address, since that is just what ARP translates - then it cannot get the message out since ultimately its messages are being sent to the wrong MAC.

"DrFranken"<midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

First of you should certainly have the CMNRCYLMT on your ETHERNET lines

set to (1 0) to allow infinite retries. ALL Y'ALL should be doing this

in fact.

Well I don't think it was ARP on the i unless you use different IP
Addresses for the HTTP servers than for Telnet. There is a one to one
relationship between ARP entries and IP Addresses so you can't mess up
the HTTP ARP entry and not the TELNET ARP entry as they would be the
same.

In addition to that if you think about it, the ARP entries ON the i
would be for itself but also for anything it's talking to. Neither the
i
nor the servers or clients it was talking to would have gotten a new
ARP
entry. Only the switches changed. So lets look at the switches.

Switches have ARP tables too, in fact theirs are VERY important. When
you pulled out the cable and moved it to the new switch it's not the
ARP
table on the i that had a problem, it's entries were still correct. The

switches in the network however may very well have though the i was
still where it was before - on the old switch. Hence traffic to it
might
still have been directed there and that switch, no longer able to
communicate with it, simply dropped the packets. So the correct
solution
was to clear the ARP entries on the switches.

Depending on the switch brand you can clear those tables from command
lines. You can always reboot them (not a pretty option.) IPLing the i

accomplished the task in a rather brute force way because when it came
back up it advertised itself on the network as well as allowing for
sufficient time to pass for the switches ARP data to age out.

So why could you connect with some things and not others? Very possibly

because of the path to the system. Some switches had correct entries
and
others did not. Anything going through the old switch likely was
getting
stuck while traffic that made it to the new switch was likely OK.

But then I'm guessing a lot too. :-)

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis


On 4/14/2011 8:43 AM, Don Cavaiani wrote:
Last night we put in all new switches, and quickly replugged the IBM
i
Ethernet cable, and the system went on running, telnet for sure.

However, the http servers no longer connected. This morning I
re-started all the HTTP servers, but we were still unable to connect.

I then did an IPL which brought everything back up.


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