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ix Contents 1. Product Overview 1 Hardwar e Overview 1 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP Adapter 2 Hardwar e and Software Requir ements 3 Product Featur es 3 Key Protocols and Interfaces 3 Diagnostic Support 4 2.
x Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2001 Setting Up a Diskless Client System on a GigaSwift Ethernet Network 19 ▼ T o Set Up a Diskless Client on a GigaSwif.
Contents xi Connectors 51 Performance Specifications 52 Physical Characteristics 52 Power Requirements 52 B. Diagnostic Software and T roubleshooting Issues 53 SunVTS Diagnostic Software 53 Using the .
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xiii Figur es FIGURE 1-1 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP Adapter 2 FIGURE 2-1 Cat-5 Twisted-Pair Cable 9 FIGURE 5-1 Example of Servers Supporting Multiple VLANs with Tagging Adapters 46 FIGURE 5-2 Ethernet.
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xv T ables T ABLE 2-1 Files and Directories on the CD-ROM 6 T ABLE 4-1 ce Driver Parameter, Status, and Descriptions 26 T ABLE 4-2 Operational Mode Parameters 27 T ABLE 4-3 Read-Write Flow Control Key.
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xvii Pr eface The Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User ’ s Guide provides installation instructions for both the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP adapter and the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet MMF adapter . This manual also describes how to configure the driver software.
xviii Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2001 Using UNIX Commands This document may not contain information on basic UNIX ® commands and procedur es such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices.
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1 CHAPTER 1 Pr oduct Overview This chapter provides a description of the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter hardware and software. Har dwar e Overview The adapter relieves congestion experienced at the ba.
2 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP Adapter The Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP adapter is a single-port gigabit Ethernet copper- based PCI Bus card. It can be conf igured to operate in 10, 100, or 1000 Mbps Ethernet networks.
Chapter 1 Product Overview 3 Har dwar e and Softwar e Requir ements Before using the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter, make sur e your system meets the following hardware and softwar e requirements: Pr oduct Featur es Y ou can install or replace the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter.
4 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 ■ IEEE 802.1P/802.1D Priority T agging/Quality Of Service ■ RAS support ■ Energy Star® support Diagnostic Sup.
5 CHAPTER 2 Installing the Adapter This chapter describes how to install the adapter in your system and how to verify that it has been installed correctly .
6 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 2. Insert the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Driver 1.0 CD into a CD-ROM drive that is connected to your system. ■ If your system is running Sun Enterprise V olume Manager™, it should automatically mount the CD-ROM to the / cdrom/cdrom0 directory .
Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 7 3. Install the software packages by typing the following at the command line, replacing the OS_VER with your version (2.
8 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 Installing the Adapter W ithout Dynamic Reconf iguration ▼ T o Install the Adapter Note – The following instructions describe the basic tasks requir ed to install the adapter .
Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 9 8. Applying even pressure at both corners of the adapter , push the PCI adapter until it is f irmly seated in the slot. Caution – Do not use excessive force when installing the adapter into the PCI slot. Y ou may damage the adapter ’s PCI connector .
10 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 Note – V erification is not requir ed if your system supports dynamic reconfiguration (DR). 1. Power on the system, and when the banner appears, press the Stop-A key sequence to interrupt the boot process and display the OpenBoot ( ok ) prompt.
Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 11 4. V iew the .properties f ile for a list of device properties. It might be diff icult to tell if the devices on your network are GigaSwift Ethernet devices or other network interface cards. The .properties command displays the specific information about the installed adapter .
12 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 Setting the local-mac-address Pr operty Note – Setting the local-mac-address property is only r equired if you will be booting from the network.
Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 13 2. V iew the device that you installed. Using the previous example, type: 3. Set the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet device to be your default boot device, type: Rebooting the System After verifying the adapter installation, use the boot -r command to perform a reconf iguration boot on your system.
14 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 Installing the Adapter W ith Dynamic Reconf iguration If you have a Sun Enterprise system that supports dynamic r econfiguration (DR), you do not have to reboot your system after installing the adapter .
Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 15 2. If the status of the slot is not “empty” or “disconnected”, type: where the sysctrl# = 0 for the Enterprise 10000 and slot# = the slot available for the adapter . For example, if you were installing the adapter into slot #3 on an Enterprise 10000, you would type the following: 3.
16 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 Now the system is also aware of the usable devices which reside on the adapter and all devices may be mounted or configur ed to be used.
17 CHAPTER 3 Network Conf iguration This chapter describes how to edit the network host files after the adapter has been installed on your system. The chapter contains the following sections: ■ “C.
18 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 Use the ifconfig command to assign an IP address to the network interface. T ype the following at the command line, replacing ip_address with the adapter ’s IP address: Refer to the ifconfig (1M) man page and the Solaris documentation for more information.
Chapter 3 Network Configuration 19 3. Create an appropriate entry in the /etc/hosts f ile for each active ce interface. For example: Setting Up a Diskless Client System on a GigaSwift Ethernet Network Note – Setting up a diskless client over GigaSwift Ethernet adapter in VLAN configuration is not supported.
20 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 ▼ T o Set Up a Diskless Client on a GigaSwift Ethernet Network 1.
Chapter 3 Network Configuration 21 Installing the Solaris Operating Envir onment Over a GigaSwift Ethernet Network The Solaris Advanced Installation Guide describes the full procedure for installing the Solaris operating environment over the network.
22 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 2. Find the root directory of the client system. The client system’s root dir ectory can be found in the install server ’s /etc/bootparams file. Use the grep command to sear ch this file for the root directory .
Chapter 3 Network Configuration 23 6. Shut down and halt the client system. Use the shutdown command to display the OpenBoot ( ok ) prompt. 7. At the ok prompt, use the show-nets command to f ind the device path of the GigaSwift Ethernet device. The show-nets command lists the system devices.
24 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 10. After installing the Solaris operating environment, install the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet software on the client system. The software installed in Step 4 was required to boot the client system over the GigaSwift Ethernet interface.
25 CHAPTER 4 Conf iguring Driver Parameters This chapter describes how to configur e the driver parameters used by the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter .
26 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 Driver Parameter V alues and Def initions T ABLE 4-1 describes the parameters and settings for the ce device driver .
Chapter 4 Configur ing Dr iver P arameters 27 Operational Mode Parameters The following parameters determine the transmit and receive speed and duplex. T ABLE 4-2 describes the operational mode parameters and their default values. Note – If a parameter ’s initial setting is 0, it cannot be changed.
28 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 Flow Contr ol Parameters The ce device is capable of sourcing (transmitting) and terminating (receiving) pause frames conforming to the IEEE 802.3x Frame Based Link Level Flow Control Protocol.
Chapter 4 Configur ing Dr iver P arameters 29 Gigabit For ced Mode Parameter In 10/100 mode it was possible to disable auto-negotiation and force the link to the speed you requir ed. W ith Gigabit copper interfaces this feature is also available but may requir e you to decide whether your side of the connection is a master or a slave.
30 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 T ABLE 4-5 defines the enable_ipg0 and ipg0 parameters. The ce device supports the programmable Interpacket Gap (IPG) parameters ipg1 and ipg2 . The total IPG is the sum of ipg1 and ipg2 .
Chapter 4 Configur ing Dr iver P arameters 31 Interrupt Parameters T ABLE 4-7 describes the receive interrupt blanking values. Random Early Dr op Parameters T ABLE 4-8 describes the RX random early detection 8-bit vectors, which allows you to enable random early drop (RED) thr esholds.
32 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 PCI Bus Interface Parameters These parameters allow you to modify PCI interface features to gain better PCI interperformance for a given application.
Chapter 4 Configur ing Dr iver P arameters 33 Setting ce Driver Parameters Y ou can set the ce device driver parameters in two ways: ■ Using the ndd utility ■ Using the ce.conf file If you use the ndd utility , the parameters are valid only until you reboot the system.
34 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 ▼ T o Specify Device Instances for the ndd Utility Before you use the ndd utility to get or set a parameter for a ce device, you must specify the device instance for the utility .
Chapter 4 Configur ing Dr iver P arameters 35 ● T o modify a parameter value, use the -set option. If you invoke the ndd utility with the -set option, the utility passes value , which must be specif.
36 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 ● T o list all the parameters supported by the ce driver , type ndd /dev/ce . (See T ABLE 4-1 through T ABLE 4-1 1 for parameter descriptions.) Setting the Autonegotiation Mode By default, autonegotiation is set to on .
Chapter 4 Configur ing Dr iver P arameters 37 ▼ T o Disable Autonegotiation Mode If your network equipment does not support autonegotiation, or if you want to specify your network speed, you can set autonegotiation to off on the ce device.
38 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 ▼ T o Set Driv er Parameters Using a ce.conf File 1. Obtain the hardware path names for the ce devices in the device tree. T ypically , the path names and the associated instance numbers are in the /etc/path_to_inst file.
Chapter 4 Configur ing Dr iver P arameters 39 In the following example, the adv_autoneg_cap and adv_1000fdx_cap parameters are set for all Sun GigaSwift Ethernet devices.
40 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 Reporting the Link Partner Capabilities T ABLE 4-1 1 describes the read-only link partner capabilities.
Chapter 4 Configur ing Dr iver P arameters 41 If the link partner is not capable of autonegotiation (when lp_autoneg_cap is 0), the remaining information described in T ABLE 4-1 1 is not relevant and the parameter value = 0.
42 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 tx_queue1 Number of packets queued for transmission on the second hardwar e transmit queue. tx_queue2 Number of packets queued for T ransmission on the third har dware transmit queue.
Chapter 4 Configur ing Dr iver P arameters 43 ▼ T o Check Link Partner Settings ● As superuser , type the netstat -k command: # netstat -k ce0 ce0: ipackets 0 ipackets64 0 ierrors 0 opackets 0 opa.
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45 CHAPTER 5 Conf iguring VLANs This chapter explains VLANs in detail and provides configuration instructions and examples. ■ VLANs: V irtual Local Area Networks (VLANs) are commonly used to split u.
46 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 Although VLANs are commonly used to cr eate individual broadcast domains and/ or separate IP subnets, it is sometimes useful for a server to have a presence on more than one VLAN simultaneously .
Chapter 5 Configur ing VLANs 47 ■ The Main Server is a high-use server that needs to be accessed from all VLANs and IP subnets. The server has an Sun GigabitEthernet adapter installed. All three IP subnets are accessed via the single physical adapter interface.
48 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 FIGURE 5-2 Ethernet T ag Header Format By default, a single VLAN is configur ed for every port, which groups all ports into the same broadcast domain, just as if ther e were no VLANs at all, VLAN tagging for the switch port turned off.
Chapter 5 Configur ing VLANs 49 2. Use the ifconfig(1M) to conf igure a VLAN virtual device, for example: The output of ifconfig -a on a system having VLAN devices ce123000 and ce224000 : 3. On the switch, set VLAN tagging and set VLAN ports to coincide with the VLANs you’ve set up on the server .
50 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001.
51 APPENDIX A Specif ications This appendix lists the specifications for the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter . It contains the following sections: ■ “Connectors” on page 51 ■ “Performance Spe.
52 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 Performance Specif ications Physical Characteristics Power Requir ements T ABLE A-2 Performance Specifications Feat.
53 APPENDIX B Diagnostic Softwar e and T r oubleshooting Issues This appendix provides an overview of the SunVTS diagnostic application and instructions for testing the adapter using the onboard FCode self-test. There is also a section outlining some common troubleshooting issues.
54 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 Using the OpenBoot PROM FCode Self- T est The following tests are available to help identify problems with the adapter if the system does not boot. Y ou can invoke the FCode self-test diagnostics by using the OpenBoot user interface test or test-all commands.
Appendix B Diagnostic Software and T roubleshooting Issues 55 4. T ype show-nets to display the list of devices. Y ou should see a list of devices, similar to the example below , specific to the adapter: 5.
56 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 7. After testing the adapter , type the following to return the OpenBoot PROM to standard operating mode: 8. Set the auto-boot? conf iguration parameter to true . 9. Reset and reboot the system.
Appendix B Diagnostic Software and T roubleshooting Issues 57 1. Establish a connection to the switch using either a serial connection or a T elnet connection. Refer to the SunSwitch 1.1 Installation and Configuration Guide (805-3743-10) for more information.
58 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • Februar y 2001 1. Set the following GigaSwift Ethernet driver parameters to values according to the documentation that shipped with your switch: ■ adv_1000fdx_cap ■ adv_1000hdx_cap ■ adv_pauseTX ■ adv_pauseRX .
Index 59 Index SYMBOLS .properties command, 1 1 .properties f ile, 1 1 /etc/hostname.cenumber file, 18 A assigning an IP address, 18 autonegotiation setting disabling, 36 C CA T -5 twisted-pair cable,.
60 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • February 2001 local-mac-address pr operty, 1 1, 12 M MAC address, 12 mac-address pr operty to set, 12 Media Access Control (MAC), .
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