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I've got IP over FC working, and have the HBA (QLogic QLA2340) connected to a router with a DHCP server on it. However, whenever I do a:

ifconfig fcip0 dhcp start

I get:

ifconfig: fcip0 wait timed out, operation still pending...

The wiring setup is:

HBA -> LC-SC cable -> StarTech ET90110SC -> Router

Is there anything obviously wrong with this setup that could cause it to fail? I've got the cable crossed over (Machine 1 RX -> Router TX), and the activity lights are blinking.

Eli
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Eli - wind my comment up there back, I didn't realise you were coming at this with such little understanding. I don't mean to be harsh but you're way off base here.

In your first question about this subject you stated that you didn't have any ethernet hardware - meaning you wanted to do this work FULLY FC-to-FC. What you've got here is a huge mess you've created. While you can run IP on almost any layer 2 device (ethernet, token-ring, PPoA, FC) what you're trying to do is just plug FC into an ethernet switch - this can't work on its own - you'd need to connect that into some form of (very expensive) converter such as a FCIP-capable switch or an ethernet capable FC switch. They're wildly incompatible protocols by default. You need to give up on this right now and just buy an ethernet NIC.

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Chopper3
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That setup will not work, the HBA is fiber-channel protocol based and the Startech converter is Ethernet protocol based.

HampusLi
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Is the router the DHCP Server ? If not you need to tell your router that he has to forward DHCP Request Broadcasts. In Cisco IOS this is done via the ip helper command.

Whoops, HampusLi is right, didnt realized that you are talking about FC.

Izac
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