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Sun Gigabit Ethernet PCI Adapter 1.0 Product Notes

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2. Assign the IP address by using vi or a similar text editor to edit the etc hosts file For the example in Step 1 to assign the IP address 192 170 87 32 to the interface myhostname ge0 you would add the following entry to your etc hosts file 192 170 87 32 myhostname ge0 3 Reboot your system reboot r Sun GigabitEthernet PCI Adapter Product Notes 3 4 Documentation Updates This section corrects or updates the Sun GigabitEthernet PCI Adaper 1 0 User s Guide Hardware Requirements The Sun Gigabit Ethernet PCI Adapter 1 0 User s Guide incorrectly states that the PCI adapter will be supported on the Sun Ultra2 The PCI adapter will be supported on the Sun Ultra Enterprise 3000 and Sun Ultra Enterprise 4000 and 5000 systems with PCI I O cards The Ultra Enterprise systems will support 2 Gigabit Ethernet cards Installation Correction On page 6 of Sun Gigabit Ethernet PCI Adapter 1 0 User s Guide Step 8 in the section To Install the Software should be amended to include the following When you have finished loading the software unmount the CD ROM director cd eject cdrom If the automounter failed to flush a previous mount point you may see the following directory cdrom sungige_1_0 1 If this should happen remove the empty directory rmdir cdrom sungige_1_0 1 On pages 6 and 7 a textbox shows the command boot r The correct command in both instances is
3. 3 Mount the CD ROM on a local directory If the Volume Manager vold is running on your machine then the CD ROM is mounted automatically under cdrom sungige_1_0 when it is loaded in the drive 4 Access the package directory cd cdrom sungige_1_0 Product 5 Install the software by entering pkgadd d don t forget the dot f pkgadd d The screen displays a list of packages available for installation The following packages are available 1 SUNWvge Sun GigabitEthernet Adapter 1 0 sparc 1 0 0 2 SUNWvts Online Validation Test Suite 2 0 sparc 2 1 REV 35 97 05 30 Select package s you wish to process or all to process all packages default all g 6 Press Return The pkgadd command starts the installation script 7 Respond to the prompts in the script 2 Sun GigabitEthernet PCI Adapter 1 0 Product Notes August 1997 8 When you have finished loading the software unmount the CD ROM directory fcd eject cdrom If the automounter fails to flush a previous mount point you may see the following directory cdrom sungige_1_0 1 If this should happen remove the empty directory rmdir cdrom sungige_1_0 1 v Configure the Host Files 1 Enter echo lt interface name gt etc hostname vge0 The variable lt interface name gt represents the name to be associated with the first gigabit ethernet adapter for example echo myhostname ge0 etc hostname vge0 2
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5. 78A Sun GigabitEthernet PCI Adapter Product Notes 5 1000BASE SX Link Characteristics IEEE P802 3z draft TABLE 2 has been updated to reflect changes in the latest draft from IEEE TABLE 2 replaces Table B 1 in the Sun GigabitEthernet PCI Adapter User s Guide TABLE 2 1000BASE SX Link Characteristics IEEE P802 3z draft Description 62 5 Micron MMF 50 Micron MMF Unit Operating Range 2 to 160 meters 2 to 550 meters m Configuring Driver Parameters Two new capabilities have been added to the parameters you can change using the ndd utility nic_tracing and link_negotiation The following procedure reflects these changes and replaces the section by the same name in the Sun GigabitEthernet PCI Adaper 1 0 User s Guide v To Temporarily Change a Parameter Use the ndd 1M utility to temporarily change a parameter This change is lost when you reboot the system To access the parameters you can change using ndd type the following command ndd dev vge The system returns the following a stat_ticks send _max_coalesced_bds recv_max_coalesced_bds nic_tracing link_negotiation instance read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write read and write 6 Sun GigabitEthernet PCI Adapter 1 0 Product Notes August 1997 TABLE 3 explains the available parameters and shows the default value as well as the minimum and maximum allowed values of each TABLE 3 Parameter stat_ticks se
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7. Sun GigabitEthernet PCI Adapter 1 0 Product Notes Qe Sun microsystems THE NETWORK IS THE COMPUTER SunSoft Inc A Sun Microsystems Inc Business 901 San Antonio Road Palo Alto CA 94303 USA 415 960 1300 fax 415 969 9131 Part No 805 1138 10 Revision A August 1997 Copyright 1997 Sun Microsystems Inc 901 San Antonio Road Palo Alto CA 94303 USA All rights reserved This product or document is protected by copyright and distributed under licenses restricting its use copying distribution and decompilation No part of this product or document may be reproduced in any form by any means without prior written authorization of Sun and its licensors if any Third party software including font technology is copyrighted and licensed from Sun suppliers Parts of the product may be derived from Berkeley BSD systems licensed from the University of California UNIX is a registered trademark in the U S and other countries exclusively licensed through X Open Company Ltd Sun Sun Microsystems the Sun logo AnswerBook SunDocs and Solaris are trademarks registered trademarks or service marks of Sun Microsystems Inc in the U S and other countries All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International Inc in the U S and other countries Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems Inc The OPEN LOOK and Sun
8. as follows reboot r Sun GigabitEthernet PCI Adapter 1 0 Product Notes August 1997 LED Indicators An explanation of the LED indicators was omitted from the Sun GigabitEthernet PCI Adapter 1 0 User s Guide TABLE 1 explains the LED indicators on the adapter TABLE 1 Sun GigabitEthernet PCI LEDs Light State Description Yellow Off Connection is good On Fault condition detected on this port which could be the result of a bad cable or a bad connector or no cable is connected to this port Blinking Data coming in Green Off Port not connected to a device e Steady e Link detected no data Flickering e Link detected data detected Blinking e Port has been disabled by software GigabitEthernet Link Negotiation The default configuration for link negotiation is auto With this setting the PCI adapter will use IEEE 802 3z draft link negotiation If you are connecting the adapter to GigabitEthernet eguipment that does not support link negotiation or if there is a problem establishing a link between the two devices link negotiation can be turned off See Configuring Driver Parameters on page 6 for instructions on how to change the settings Be sure that both devices are set to the same speed and duplex configuration Purchasing Fiber Cables You can purchase fiber cables directly from Sun Microsystems Inc using the following part numbers m 2 meter fiber cable X973A m 15 meter fiber cable X9
9. nd_max_coalesced_bds recv_max coalesced_bds nic_tracing link_negotiation instance Explanation of ndd Parameters Meaning Minimum number of 100 usec tics between interrupts Number of sends before a send complete event is set Maximum number of receives that can be bundled into an event not currently used Used to set link negotiation to auto or off Used to set the device number from which the previous data is extracted Default 100 60 0 1 for auto Minimum 0 0 0 for off To change the default settings use the following format ndd set dev vge parameter_name value Open Issues Maximum No limit 127 511 No limit 1 for auto Number of Gigabit Ethernet NICs in the system This section addresses Sun GigabitEthernet PCI adapter issues that were not resolved at the time the Sun GigabitEthernet PCI Adapter 1 0 User s Guide was printed Flow Control Flow control is not supported in this release Sun GigabitEthernet PCI Adapter Product Notes 7 8 Sun GigabitEthernet PCI Adapter 1 0 Product Notes August 1997

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