[f-nsp] can't get ping on foundry

[Dan Norton]

We have a new Serveriron going into production and are having some difficulties with getting it connected to the network. 
When it is directly connected to my router, neither the router nor the foundry can ping each other. 

Here is the relevant information on the foundry, I'm trying to get it connected to the network so we can upgrade the firmware:



ServerIron#ping 192.168.1.1
Sending 1, 16-byte ICMP Echo to 192.168.1.1, timeout 5000 msec, TTL 64
Type Control-c to abort
Request timed out.
No reply from remote host.
ServerIron#sh int
Port Link State     Dupl Speed Trunk Tag Priori MAC            Name
01   Down None      None None  None  No  Normal 00e0.5201.f906
02   Down None      None None  None  No  Normal 00e0.5201.f907
03   Down None      None None  None  No  Normal 00e0.5201.f908
04   Down None      None None  None  No  Normal 00e0.5201.f909
05   Down None      None None  None  No  Normal 00e0.5201.f90a
06   Down None      None None  None  No  Normal 00e0.5201.f90b
07   Up   Forward   Full 100M  None  No  Normal 00e0.5201.f90c
08   Down None      None None  None  No  Normal 00e0.5201.f90d
09   Down None      None None  None  No  Normal 00e0.5201.f90e
ServerIron#sh ver
 SW: Version 3.1.11T12 Copyright (c) 1996-1998 Foundry Networks, Inc.
     Compiled on Nov 19 1998 at 18:50:39 labeled as SLB03111
 HW: ServerIron Switch, serial number 01f906
 240 MHz Power PC processor 603 (revision 7) with 32756K bytes of DRAM
   8 100BaseT interfaces with Level 1 Transceiver LXT975
   1 GIGA uplink interfaces, SX
 256 KB PRAM and 8*2048 CAM entries for DMA 2, version 0807
 256 KB PRAM and 4*1024 CAM entries for DMA 4, version 0104, SEEQ GIGA MAC
 128 KB boot flash memory
4096 KB code flash memory
   0 KB BRAM, BM version 02
 128 KB QRAM
 512 KB SRAM
Octal System, Maximum Code Image Size Supported: 1965568 (0x001dfe00)
The system uptime is 8 minutes 42 seconds

ServerIron#wr term
Current configuration:
!
global-protocol-vlan
!
!
!
!
ip address 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0
ip default-gateway 192.168.1.1
!
interface e 1
!
interface e 2
!
interface e 3
!
interface e 4
!
interface e 5
!
interface e 6
!
interface e 7
!
interface e 8
!
interface e 9
!
end



And on the router, you can see that it has the foundry's MAC address in the ARP tables:

router#ping 192.168.1.2

Type escape sequence to abort.
Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 192.168.1.2, timeout is 2 seconds:
.....
Success rate is 0 percent (0/5)
nuclearworm#sh arp
Protocol  Address          Age (min)  Hardware Addr   Type   Interface
Internet  192.168.1.1             -   0003.6bba.2d60  ARPA   FastEthernet0/0
Internet  192.168.1.2             0   00a0.5201.f906  ARPA   FastEthernet0/0

I've already tried different variations of hard-coding each end of the link. It may be a firmware issue but I can't rule that out until I can upgrade the firmware... and I can't upgrade the firmware until I get it connected to the network.

I'm pretty sure it's not the firmware though.

I started it in boot monitor mode and get the following:

BOOT MONITOR> ip address 192.168.1.2 255.255.255.0
BOOT INFO: set ip addr to 192.168.001.002, ip mask to 255.255.255.000
BOOT MONITOR> ip default_gateway 192.168.1.1
BOOT MONITOR> ping 192.168.1.1
No reply from remote host

If it's a firmware issue I'd think that it would work even if just in boot monitor mode.

I've tried all ports, it's an 8 port model and get the same results.

Anything else I should try? I couldn't find an option of upgrading the firmware through the serial port nor could I find any manuals for this older firmware.

Dan Norton
Network Administrator