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Subject: RE: taking down a network interface on cougar
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:02:48 -0700
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Thread-Topic: taking down a network interface on cougar
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From: "Mike Lee" <mike.lee@onstor.com>
To: "Andy Sharp" <andy.sharp@onstor.com>,
	"Maxim Kozlovsky" <maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com>

Guys:
Thanks for the insights.
There is a Cougar clustering defect that may be related to the BP =
interface.
That's why I'm asking. =20
-Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Sharp=20
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 1:56 PM
To: Maxim Kozlovsky
Cc: Mike Lee
Subject: Re: taking down a network interface on cougar


And for interfaces that you might want to do this to, like eth0 or
eth1, you should use this command:

ifconfig ethX 0.0.0.0 down


On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 13:41:54 -0800 "Maxim Kozlovsky"
<maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com> wrote:

> No you won't like that. Don't do this.
>=20
> _____________________________________________
> From: Mike Lee=20
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2008 12:39 PM
> To: Maxim Kozlovsky; Andy Sharp
> Subject: taking down a network interface on cougar
>=20
> Hi Guys:
>=20
> If I like to disable one of our network interfaces on the cougar,
> specifically bp0, shouldn't "ifconfig <interface> down" do the trick?
> When I tried to "ifconfig bp0 down", the command completed
> successfully, but I was still able to ping the interface.
> Is this expected behavior?
> Thanks.
>=20
> -Mike
