Originally posted by: Emittim3@Sirius
All:
I'm having a weird issue with TFTP on AIX 6.1 and PowerHA (actually, IP aliases - as the PowerHA config is set to place IP aliases on the etherchannel interface, in other words, no old school IP address take over). The configuration is as follows:
One boot address, thus the ent3 interface (etherchannel) has a hard IP address of 192.168.1.1.
One IP alias that is set at the AIX level (not PowerHA) of 10.1.1.51. PowerHA is configured to recognize this alias as the host persistent address.
When the node has the PowerHA (cluster) resource group active on it, the service IP alias is 10.1.1.50.
The problem is as follows:
When the service address is up on the host, tftp to the host from external clients that are not linux based works. When trying to tftp from linux (either a diskless workstation running embedded linux or a Fedora 11 (FC11) laptop, tftp to the service address (10.1.1.50) times out. But, tftp to the persistent IP address (10.1.1.51) is successful.
Why would there be an issue with tftp on the service alias versus the persistent alias? And only with Linux clients? An external AIX client can tftp to the service address without timing out.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
Philip Greer
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