Hi there, i have a question regarding vblade as a san server.

So what i have is a SL6 system evrything working the problem is that vblade does not start on eth1 or eth0. If i run aoe-start it does not show anything, however if i run vblade (i.e. vblade 0 1 lo /file/") it works. Has anyone seen something like that before.

Why would vblade b ok on the loopback but not on eth1 or 0

What happens if you run vblade 0 1 <interface_name> <file>? Do you get an error message?

Are you sure your network device is actually called eth0 or eth1? What does ifconfig -a report?

Nope no erroe message just the standard output of the type of

pid 32405: e0.1, 3494945 sectors O_RDWR

It is eth1 which is used as a part of an open vpn bridge but before you ask i tried running it on the bridge and it has the same effect

br0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:90:91:67:39
inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::225:90ff:fe91:6739/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3991695 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3262161 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1210911835 (1.1 GiB) TX bytes:6618637643 (6.1 GiB)

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:90:91:67:38
inet addr:137.195.19.198 Bcast:137.195.19.255 Mask:255.255.255.192
inet6 addr: fe80::225:90ff:fe91:6738/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3083605 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2538706 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2883449151 (2.6 GiB) TX bytes:1516298782 (1.4 GiB)
Memory:dfa20000-dfa40000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:90:91:67:39
inet6 addr: fe80::225:90ff:fe91:6739/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4637224 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6067258 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1331519745 (1.2 GiB) TX bytes:6768149421 (6.3 GiB)
Memory:dfa00000-dfa20000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:36533 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:36533 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:15366070 (14.6 MiB) TX bytes:15366070 (14.6 MiB)

tap0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr FA:0B:98:E8:6F:20
inet6 addr: fe80::f80b:98ff:fee8:6f20/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:15973 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:169366 errors:0 dropped:1 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:994831 (971.5 KiB) TX bytes:34469556 (32.8 MiB)