topic Re: XPedite5501 P2020e. Active ethernet issue (u boot) in P-Series

XPedite5501 P2020e. Active ethernet issue (u boot)

nfarabee — Tue, 22 Aug 2017 20:21:59 GMT

Hi,

When powering-on XPedite5501, u boot shows: Net: eTSEC1, eTSEC2. Indicating there are two Ethernet ports available. When I run "printenv" I see ethact = eTSEC1. I set ethact to etSEC2 by "setenv ethact eTSEC2", then save ("saveenv"). If I power cycle, ethact defaults to eTSEC1. Both ethernet ports have worked. I managed to switch between them once before. Now I can't seem to prevent P2020e from defaulting to ethact = eTSEC1. My goal is to have both ethernet ports talking "simultaneously". From what I've tried, I'm only allowed to have one talking even though they are both connected to a single switch.

Any advice on this?

Thanks.

Re: XPedite5501 P2020e. Active ethernet issue (u boot)

yipingwang — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 12:31:56 GMT

It looks that you can only (easily) access one port at a time. There is also only one static IP address assignment and the ipaddr environment variable.

Please set the default to eTSEC2 as the following.

=> setenv ethact eTSEC2
=> setenv ethprime eTSEC2
=> save

Have a great day,
TIC

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