I am having a great deal of difficulty getting my filer’s 10g interfaces connected to a pair of 3750E switches I am trying to use for my storage network’s backbone. I can inconsistently ping other objects on the network (there really is nothing there yet, we are just getting  started, but I do have a host and an RLM card just for troubleshooting purposes), but they cannot ping each other.  From a remote host (172.1.2.5)  I can ping everything but array1. If I bring down either of the two stacked switches (which brings down one port of each VIF member pairs) everything works.

 

array01> ping 172.1.0.1

172.1.0.1 is alive

array01> ping 172.1.0.2

array01> ping 172.1.0.4

ping: wrote 172.1.0.4 64 chars, error=Host is down

ping: wrote 172.1.0.4 64 chars, error=Host is down

array01> Thu May 15 13:28:33 EDT [gvr-array01: nis_worker_0:info]: Local NIS group update successful.

array01> ping 172.1.2.5

172.1.2.5 is alive

 

array02> ping 172.1.0.1

array02> ping 172.1.0.4

172.1.0.4 is alive

array02> ping 172.1.0.4

172.1.0.4 is alive

array02> ping 172.1.0.250

172.1.0.250 is alive

array02> ping 172.1.2.5 

no answer from 172.1.2.5

 

 

array01> ifconfig -a

e0a: flags=948043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM> mtu 1500

        ether 02:a0:98:08:22:b7 (auto-1000t-fd-up) flowcontrol full

        trunked lan0

e0b: flags=108042<BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM> mtu 1500

        ether 00:a0:98:08:22:b6 (auto-unknown-cfg_down) flowcontrol full

e0c: flags=948043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM> mtu 1500

        ether 02:a0:98:08:22:b7 (auto-1000t-fd-up) flowcontrol full

        trunked lan0

e0d: flags=108042<BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM> mtu 1500

        ether 00:a0:98:08:22:b4 (auto-unknown-cfg_down) flowcontrol full

e2a: flags=948043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM> mtu 1500

        ether 02:a0:98:08:22:b6 (auto-10g_sr-fd-up) flowcontrol full

        trunked tgif

e2b: flags=948043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM> mtu 1500

        ether 02:a0:98:08:22:b6 (auto-10g_sr-fd-up) flowcontrol full

        trunked tgif

lo: flags=1948049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM> mtu 8160

        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 127.0.0.1

        ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 (VIA Provider)

lan0: flags=948043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM> mtu 1500

        inet 10.28.17.213 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.28.17.255

        partner 10.28.17.214 (not in use)

        ether 02:a0:98:08:22:b7 (Enabled virtual interface)

tgif: flags=4948043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM,NOWINS> mtu 1500

        inet 172.1.0.1 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 172.1.255.255

        partner 172.1.0.2 (not in use)

        ether 02:a0:98:08:22:b6 (Enabled virtual interface)

        nfo enabled

array02>ifconfig –a

e0a: flags=948043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM> mtu 1500

        ether 02:a0:98:0c:1a:37 (auto-1000t-fd-up) flowcontrol full

        trunked lan0

e0b: flags=108042<BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM> mtu 1500

        ether 00:a0:98:0c:1a:36 (auto-unknown-cfg_down) flowcontrol full

e0c: flags=948043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM> mtu 1500

        ether 02:a0:98:0c:1a:37 (auto-1000t-fd-up) flowcontrol full

        trunked lan0

e0d: flags=108042<BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM> mtu 1500

        ether 00:a0:98:0c:1a:34 (auto-unknown-cfg_down) flowcontrol full

e2a: flags=948043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM> mtu 1500

        ether 02:a0:98:0c:1a:36 (auto-10g_sr-fd-up) flowcontrol full

        trunked tgif

e2b: flags=948043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM> mtu 1500

        ether 02:a0:98:0c:1a:36 (auto-10g_sr-fd-up) flowcontrol full

        trunked tgif

lo: flags=1948049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM> mtu 8160

        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 127.0.0.1

        ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 (VIA Provider)

lan0: flags=948043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM> mtu 1500

        inet 10.28.17.214 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.28.17.255

        partner 10.28.17.213 (not in use)

        ether 02:a0:98:0c:1a:37 (Enabled virtual interface)

tgif: flags=4948043<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,TCPCKSUM,NOWINS> mtu 1500

        inet 172.1.0.2 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 172.1.255.255

        partner 172.1.0.1 (not in use)

        ether 02:a0:98:0c:1a:36 (Enabled virtual interface)

        nfo enabled

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