10.10 server sun x2100 broadcom5750 - up but not running

[buzz]

Just spent the last 4 days trying to load a minimal server config on 4 servers - finally done this only to discover that eth0 is UP but not RUNNING.

All the servers have static IPs.

I have tried removing "interface-mtu" from /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf - no effect.

looking at dmesg, I have ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready - otherwise dmesg seems to pass everything else

ifconfig says that eth0 is UP but not RUNNING

Not too sure how to procede on this one - I'm stumped. I've looked at a lot of similar issues, such as removing the NetworkManager (which isn't installed).

very grateful for any form of feedback on this

Thanks and regards

[buzz (buzzheavyyear)]

I just swapped eth0 for eth1 in /etc/network/interfaces and I have the same result, so it's not to do with the broadcom controller, just the standard install (?).

[buzz (buzzheavyyear)]

Just tried 'ifconfig eth1 up' .... no problems
Just tried 'ifconfig eth1 running' .... and got a Host name lookup failure. If I do 'hostname' I get the correct hostname and if I do a 'hostname -i' I get the correct ip address.

[buzz (buzzheavyyear)]

I have two ethernet ports at the back of the machine - port1 which is eth0 and port2 which is eth1. By accident this morning I connected the lan cable to the wrong port (port2 instead of port1) to continue this severe ubuntu installation failure and everything works.

This is the dumbest mistake I have ever made. Apologies for taking up everyones time.