July 7, 20233 yr Just posting a solution to an issue with installing an X540-DA2 on Supermicro X9DRD-7LN4F. Plugged in card, lights on, but no connectivity. Was able to terminal and ifconfig ethX (#) up and bring the card online while still connecting one cable to 1000, it started to show traffic on the dashboard but no IP address Was able to ping the server.local however it was returning the IPv6 address Stopped the Array, went to Settings, Network Settings, and checked the boxes for ETH4 & ETH5 to add them to the Bond0. I am sure this is obvious, but not for noob. See image below. Hope this helps someone. Keywords: X540-DA2, X540-T2, Pinging Only IPv6, Unable to Ping Server with New Card
July 7, 20233 yr Community Expert A bond with 5 LAN ports? In "active backup" mode? This really makes no sense, especially if there are speed differences between the cards/ports. Are you sure, you know what you are doing ? Edited July 7, 20233 yr by MAM59
December 9, 20232 yr Author On 7/7/2023 at 12:34 AM, MAM59 said: A bond with 5 LAN ports? In "active backup" mode? This really makes no sense, especially if there are speed differences between the cards/ports. Are you sure, you know what you are doing ? Only 1 cable. Just sharing what worked.
October 19, 20241 yr I don't really understand it either, but this just fixed the same issue for me as well on the same X540 NIC. Thank you pixels703 for sharing!
October 19, 20241 yr Community Expert Ran into similar when UR was assigned the integrated nic only to eth0 leaving the x540 that I had connected physically to switch disconnected. Manually setting the x540 port as eth0 was my corrective action. I CAN see how the bonding solution above would get things talking but it would not be optimized; rather a temporary workaround.
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