Aaron Delp’s BladeVault

This one is more for my archive than anything else. We set up some Cisco 3020’s in an HP Blade System recently and after a few weeks at the customer site none of the switches were accessible over IP. The switch config didn’t change and everything was fine when the hardware was set up. The only thing out of the ordinary was the switch was given a hard coded IP address on fa0 as opposed to using EBIPA and providing a DHCP address.

Since the switch was in production we were wary to make any big changes. The fa0 port was listed as up/up and it shows the IP address. You could also ping the IP of the switch from the switch but you could not ping outside the switch. We had the same issue trying to connect from the OA into the switch. The simple fix was to shut/no shut the fa0 port on the switch. After this IP was reset and it was off and running!

Thanks to Kevin for this one!

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