Help with error in /var/adm/messages

[SuperJan]

Hi

We have a Sun V210 showing errors in the messages file. Can anyone shed some light on what it is telling us? We applied the cummulative patches on Feb 13, but no other changes were made to the server.

SunOS sunlegato 5.10 Generic_127111-06

The message file shows these errors:

May 8 12:03:19 sunlegato last message repeated 5 times
May 8 12:04:19 sunlegato ip: [ID 390400 kern.notice] dst FFFFFFFF src 7F000001
May 8 12:10:19 sunlegato last message repeated 6 times
May 8 12:11:19 sunlegato ip: [ID 390400 kern.notice] dst FFFFFFFF src 7F000001
May 8 12:16:19 sunlegato last message repeated 5 times
May 8 12:17:19 sunlegato ip: [ID 390400 kern.notice] dst FFFFFFFF src 7F000001
May 8 12:23:19 sunlegato last message repeated 6 times
May 8 12:24:19 sunlegato ip: [ID 390400 kern.notice] dst FFFFFFFF src 7F000001

I have had a look on Sun's web site but cannot find an answer. Any help would be appreciated.

Kind Regards
Janis

 

[MoreFeo]

Any other different error before the first line?

May 8 12:03:19 sunlegato last message repeated 5 times

Any NFS mounted filesystems?
How many ethernet adapters, and are the configured?

 

[SuperJan]

Hi Morefeo

There are no NFS mounts on this server.

We have one ethernet card and bge0 is configured.

From reboot messages:
bge0 registered
bge0: link down (initialized)
bge0: link up 100Mbps Full-Duplex (initialized)

I was speaking to our Network guy and he thinks there may be a problem with a switch on this subnet so I am hoping this might be causing the error.

Will let you know.

Janis

 

[elgrandeperro]

Make sure the loopback driver is configured correctly, that src is definitely loopback. Check the loopback's netmask, specifically using ifconfig -a.

 

[MoreFeo]

elgrandeperro is right, 7F000001 is 127.0.0.1, so check the loopback adapter.

 

[SuperJan]

Hi

Thanks for the advice. The problem was due to a network error, nothing to do with the server.

Someone messed up with cabling switches, trunking etc.

I should have known it wouldn't be the server.

Thanks again for the posts.

Regards
Janis