Mauro - where did you put this script and can you show the script ?

Thanks.

Alan Levy
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.M...] On Behalf Of Mauro Souza
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 12:19 PM
To: LINUX-390@VM.M...
Subject: Re: mac address problem

I saw this on a SLES11-SP2 this week. To solve the problem, I put an script to ping the gateway as soon as it boots. And it works.

Mauro
http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God.


2012/5/17 Levy, Alan <ALevy@doit...>:
> We have a problem with a linux server that when we reboot it, it takes at least 15 minutes to be able to ssh into.
>
> It seems, from out network traces, that when the server reboots, it has 2 mac addresses in the arp tables on the firewall  (one from before and one from after the reboot).
>
> We cannot ping or ssh into the server after the reboot. Yesterday, we rebooted it. The network group ran traces, captured packets, etc and we found that if we pinged the network gateway address from this server, everything started working again.
>
> Has anyone seen this before ?
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