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76 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 20037. Set the auto-boot? configuration parameter to true.8. Reset and rebo
Appendix B Diagnostic Software and Troubleshooting Issues 772. At the Main# prompt, type cfg to display the Configuration menu and prompt(Configuratio
78 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 20032. Set the adv-autoneg-cap parameter to 0.Note – See Chapter 4 for the
Appendix B Diagnostic Software and Troubleshooting Issues 79Problem with DR Attach on SunEnterprise PlatformsDR attach does not configure ce interface
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Index 81IndexSYMBOLS.properties command, 18.properties file, 18/etc/hostname.cenumber file, 26Aassigning an IP address, 26autonegotiationsettingdisabl
82 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003checking, 58local-mac-address property, 19MMAC address, 19mac-address p
xiContents1. Product Overview 1Hardware Overview 1Sun GigaSwift Ethernet MMF Adapter 2LED Displays 2Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP Adapter 3LED Displays 3
xii Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003Rebooting the System 20Installing the Adapter With Dynamic Reconfigura
Contents xiiiGigaSwift Ethernet Driver Operating Statistics 54Reporting the Link Partner Capabilities 555. Configuring VLANs 63An Overview of VLANs 63
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xvFiguresFIGURE 1-1 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet MMF Adapter 2FIGURE 1-2 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP Adapter 3FIGURE 2-1 Connecting the Fiber Optic Cable 15F
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xviiTablesTABLE 1-1 Front Panel Display LEDs for the MMF Adapter 2TABLE 1-2 Front Panel Display LEDs for the UTP Adapter 4TABLE 2-1 Files and Director
xviii Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003TABLE A-3 Performance Sepcifications 70TABLE A-4 Physical Characteri
xixPrefaceThe Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide provides installationinstructions for both the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP a
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xx Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003Using UNIX CommandsThis document may not contain information on basic U
Preface xxiShell PromptsRelated DocumentationAccessing Sun Documentation OnlineYou can view, print, or purchase a broad selection of Sun documentation
xxii Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003Sun Welcomes Your CommentsSun is interested in improving its document
1CHAPTER1Product OverviewThis chapter provides a description of the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter hardwareand software. This chapter includes the fol
2 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003Sun GigaSwift Ethernet MMF AdapterThe Sun GigaSwift Ethernet MMF adapter
Chapter 1 Product Overview 3Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP AdapterThe Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP adapter is a single-port gigabit Ethernet copper-based PC
4 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003equivalent to TX and RX of the PHY except that they indicate the state o
Chapter 1 Product Overview 5Hardware and Software RequirementsBefore using the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter, make sure your system meets thefollowin
6 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003 Patch-ID Number 112327-07 for Solaris 2.6 and 7 operating environments
Chapter 1 Product Overview 7Diagnostic Support User-executable self-test using OpenBoot™ PROM SunVTS diagnostic tool
iiiRegulatoryComplianceStatementsYour Sun product is marked to indicate its compliance class:• Federal Communications Commission (FCC) — USA• Industry
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9CHAPTER2Installing the AdapterThis chapter describes how to install the adapter in your system and how to verifythat it has been installed correctly.
10 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 20032. Insert the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Driver 1.0 Update 1 CD into a CD-R
Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 113. Install the software packages by typing the following at the command line,replacing the OS_VER with your version
12 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003▼ To Install Driver Software for Solaris 2.6Operating Environments1. Be
Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 13● To verify patches for Solaris 8 operating environments, type the following.The patch version should be -13 or gre
14 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003Installingthe Adapter WithoutDynamicReconfiguration▼ To Install the Ada
Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 158. Applying even pressure at both corners of the adapter, push the PCI adapter untilit is firmly seated in the slot
16 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003FIGURE 2-2 Cat-5 Twisted-Pair Cable▼ To Verify the InstallationAfter yo
Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 172. List the network devices on your system.Use the show-nets command to list the system devices. You should see the
iv Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003ICES-003ClassANotice-AvisNMB-003,ClasseAThis Class A digital apparatus
18 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 20034. View the.properties file for a list of device properties.It might be
Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 19The phy-type will have its value assigned as follows:Note – If you are going to set the local-mac-address property,
20 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003▼ To Set the GigaSwift Ethernet Device Primary Boot DeviceUse this proc
Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 21Installing the Adapter With DynamicReconfigurationIf you have a Sun Enterprise system that supports dynamic reconfi
22 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 20032. If the status of the slot is not “empty” or “disconnected”, type:whe
Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 23Now the system is also aware of the usable devices which reside on the adapter andall devices may be mounted or con
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25CHAPTER3Network ConfigurationThis chapter describes how to edit the network host files after the adapter has beeninstalled on your system. The chapt
26 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003Use the ifconfig command to assign an IP address to the network interfa
Chapter 3 Network Configuration 273. Create an appropriate entry in the /etc/hosts file for each active ce interface.For example:Setting Up a GigaSwif
vBSMIClassANoticeThe following statement is applicable to products shipped to Taiwan and marked as Class A on the product compliancelabel.
28 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 20032. Insert the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Driver 1.0 Update 1 CD into the se
Chapter 3 Network Configuration 29Installing the Solaris OperatingEnvironment Over a GigaSwift EthernetNetworkThe Solaris Advanced Installation Guide
30 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 20032. Find the root directory of the client system.The client system’s roo
Chapter 3 Network Configuration 316. Shut down and halt the client system.Use the shutdown command to display the OpenBoot (ok) prompt.7. At the ok pr
32 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003 Booting in non-Auto-Negotiated verbose mode at 100 Mbps full duplex:
Chapter 3 Network Configuration 3311. Confirm that the network host files have been configured correctly during theSolaris installation.Although the S
34 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003TABLE 3-1 Device Link ParametersDevice Parameters Device Link Capabilit
Chapter 3 Network Configuration 35Following are examples showing the usage of the boot net command line withdevice parameters specified:To attempt to
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37CHAPTER4Configuring Driver ParametersThis chapter describes how to configure the driver parameters used by the SunGigaSwift Ethernet adapter. This c
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38 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003Note – The syntax for the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet driver parameters has
Chapter 4 Configuring Driver Parameters 39Operational Mode ParametersThe following parameters determine the transmit and receive speed and duplex.TABL
40 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003Note – If a parameter’s initial setting is 0, it cannot be changed. If
Chapter 4 Configuring Driver Parameters 41TABLE 4-3 provides flow control keywords and describes their function.TABLE 4-3 Read-Write Flow Control Keyw
42 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003Gigabit Link Clock Mastership ControlsThe concept of link clock masters
Chapter 4 Configuring Driver Parameters 43If enable-ipg0 is disabled, the value of ipg0 is ignored and no additional delay isset. Only the delays set
44 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003Interrupt ParametersTABLE 4-7 describes the receive interrupt blanking
Chapter 4 Configuring Driver Parameters 45Random Early Drop ParametersTABLE 4-8 describes the RX random early detection 8-bit vectors, which allows yo
46 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003PCI Bus Interface ParametersThese parameters allow you to modify PCI in
Chapter 4 Configuring Driver Parameters 47Setting ce Driver ParametersYou can set the ce device driver parameters in two ways: Using the ndd utility
viiDeclaration of ConformityEMCEuropean UnionThis equipment complies with the following requirements of the EMC Directive 89/336/EEC:SafetyThis equipm
48 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003▼ To Specify Device Instances for the ndd UtilityBefore you use the ndd
Chapter 4 Configuring Driver Parameters 49Using the ndd Utility in Noninteractive ModeThis section describes how to modify and display parameter value
50 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003● To list all the parameters supported by the ce driver, type ndd /dev/
Chapter 4 Configuring Driver Parameters 51▼ To Disable Autonegotiation ModeIf your network equipment does not support autonegotiation, or if you want
52 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003The man pages for prtconf(1M) and driver.conf(4) include additional det
Chapter 4 Configuring Driver Parameters 53 unit-address =“0”In the third line in the previous example: parent =“pci@5” unit-address =“1”2. Set the
54 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003 Then you had to get the link status:Starting with the Sun GigaSwift E
Chapter 4 Configuring Driver Parameters 55TABLE 4-10 describes the read-only Media Independent Interface (MII) capabilities.These parameters define th
56 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003Reporting the Link Partner CapabilitiesTABLE 4-11 describes the read-on
Chapter 4 Configuring Driver Parameters 57TABLE 4-12 describes the netstat -k transmit and receive parameters:TABLE 4-12 Transmit and Receive Paramete
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58 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003rx_new_hdr_pgs Number of pages that were filled with packets less than
Chapter 4 Configuring Driver Parameters 59▼ To Check Link Partner Settings● If you are running Solaris 2.6, 7 or 8 operating evironment, type the nets
60 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003 cap_10fdx 1 cap_10hdx
Chapter 4 Configuring Driver Parameters 61 opackets64 0 pci_bad_ack_err 0 pci_dmarz_err
62 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003Additional Uses for the kstat Command● Use the kstat command to discove
Chapter 4 Configuring Driver Parameters 63● Use the kstat command to discover link settings.# kstat ce:0 | grep link link_T4
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63CHAPTER5Configuring VLANsThis chapter explains VLANs in detail and provides configuration instructions andexamples. VLANs: Virtual Local Area Netwo
64 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003Although VLANs are commonly used to create individual broadcast domains
Chapter 5 Configuring VLANs 65 The Main Server is a high-use server that needs to be accessed from all VLANsand IP subnets. The server has an Sun Gig
ixDeclaration of ConformityEMCEuropean UnionThis equipment complies with the following requirements of the EMC Directive 89/336/EEC:SafetyThis equipme
66 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003Tagging an Ethernet frame requires the addition of a tag header to the
Chapter 5 Configuring VLANs 672. Use the ifconfig(1M) to configure a VLAN virtual device, for example:The output of ifconfig -a on a system having VLA
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69APPENDIXASpecificationsThis appendix lists the specifications for the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter. Itcontains the following sections: “Connector
70 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003FIGURE A-2 shows the connector for the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP adapt
Appendix A Specifications 71Physical CharacteristicsPower RequirementsTABLE A-4 Physical CharacteristicsDimension MeasurementLength 6.8 inchesWidth 4.
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73APPENDIXBDiagnostic Software andTroubleshooting IssuesThis appendix provides an overview of the SunVTS diagnostic application andinstructions for te
74 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2003Using the OpenBoot PROM FCode Self-TestThe following tests are availabl
Appendix B Diagnostic Software and Troubleshooting Issues 754. Type show-nets to display the list of devices.You should see a list of devices, similar
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