misconfigured network card

Popcorn Crispeta llouhevlyy at hotmail.com
Thu Dec 11 17:30:53 CET 2008




From: llouhevlyy at hotmail.com
To: adam at akarsoft.com
Subject: RE: misconfigured network card
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:28:26 +0100










I wrote:

«Greetings:

I recently had a hard drive failure on a remote
machine and had to reinstall OpenBSD 4.2.  When copying the files over
from my backup drive (backed up every evening) I somehow misconfigured
my network card and now I can't even ping to the server. Using an LVM
monitor I can see that all is well, but it's impossible for me to
connect.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?»

Adam answered:

>From: adam at akarsoft.com

>Can you post the hostname.if file? 

$ less /etc/hostname.rl0
inet 69.94.110.70 255.255.248.0 NONE

>Also, the output of $(netstat -arn). 

$ netstat -arn
Routing tables

Internet:
Destination        Gateway            Flags    Refs      Use    Mtu  Interface
default            69.94.104.1        UGS        38  8462842      -   rl0
69.94.104/21       link#1             UC          3        0      -   rl0
69.94.104.1        00:00:0c:07:ac:d5  UHLc        2        0      -   rl0
69.94.104.3        00:17:e0:f9:ba:3f  UHLc        0        0      -   rl0
69.94.110.70       00:15:58:be:b1:6c  UHLc        0     4600      -   lo0
127/8              127.0.0.1          UGRS        0        0  33208   lo0
127.0.0.1          127.0.0.1          UH          2   611858  33208   lo0
208.98.1.156       69.94.104.1        UGHD        0  8457558      - L rl0
224/4              127.0.0.1          URS         0        0  33208   lo0

Internet6:
Destination                        Gateway                        Flags    Refs      Use    Mtu  Interfac
e
::/104                             ::1                            UGRS        0        0      -   lo0
::/96                              ::1                            UGRS        0        0      -   lo0
::1                                ::1                            UH         14   135213  33208   lo0
::127.0.0.0/104                    ::1                            UGRS        0        0      -   lo0
::224.0.0.0/100                    ::1                            UGRS        0        0      -   lo0
::255.0.0.0/104                    ::1                            UGRS        0        0      -   lo0
::ffff:0.0.0.0/96                  ::1                            UGRS        0        0      -   lo0
2002::/24                          ::1                            UGRS        0        0      -   lo0
2002:7f00::/24                     ::1                            UGRS        0        0      -   lo0
2002:e000::/20                     ::1                            UGRS        0        0      -   lo0
2002:ff00::/24                     ::1                            UGRS        0        0      -   lo0
fe80::/10                          ::1                            UGRS        0        0      -   lo0
fe80::%rl0/64                      link#1                         UC          0        0      -   rl0
fe80::215:58ff:febe:b16c%rl0       00:15:58:be:b1:6c              UHL         0        0      -   lo0
fe80::%lo0/64                      fe80::1%lo0                    U           0        0      -   lo0
fe80::1%lo0                        link#3                         UHL         0        0      -   lo0
fec0::/10                          ::1                            UGRS        0        0      -   lo0
ff01::/16                          ::1                            UGRS        0        0      -   lo0
ff01::%rl0/32                      link#1                         UC          0        0      -   rl0
ff01::%lo0/32                      ::1                            UC          0        0      -   lo0
ff02::/16                          ::1                            UGRS        0        0      -   lo0
ff02::%rl0/32                      link#1                         UC          0        0      -   rl0
ff02::%lo0/32                      ::1                            UC          0        0      -   lo0
$


My apologies for not having responded sooner, but I've been desperately trying to remount this server.  It seems that simply by copying the entire contents of /usr/local/bin from the backup drive to the main drive, I rendered my box unconnectable. It would boot, and I could see that it was up, but I couldn't even ping it.

Now everything is back to normal, and the netstat reading above is from the properly running machine.  I also now know better than to indiscriminately copy files from the backup drive to the main drive.  But I am really curious to know what it was I did to incapicitate my network card.

The folks where I rent my dedicated server were kind and helpful, but unfortunately unfamiliar with OpenBSD.

Thanks again.

Lou

---D. Adam Karim
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On Dec 5, 2008, at 7:33 AM, Popcorn Crispeta <llouhevlyy at hotmail.com> wrote:


Greetings:

I recently had a hard drive failure on a remote machine and had to reinstall OpenBSD 4.2.  When copying the files over from my backup drive (backed up every evening) I somehow misconfigured my network card and now I can't even ping to the server. Using an LVM monitor I can see that all is well, but it's impossible for me to connect.

Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Thanks.


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