QFE CARD PROBLEM
Hi all,
I'm having the following problem.
The server is a Sunfire V240, I've just installed a 4-port Quad card in the 3.3 Volt PCI slot, and I'm only configuring qfe0 and qfe2 since they are the interfaces to be used for network traffic. The problem is that the system complains about qfe1 down and I get tons of input errors on qfe0 and qfe2 when looking at netstat -in.
Quad cards are supposed to support both 3.3 and 5 volt PCI slots but I am suspecting they don't work well at 3.3 , can someone confirm this?
thanks a million
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gvoden] at [2007-11-25 22:42:58]
# 2
Might pay to check the duplex and speed settings on the device you're plugging them into. ie. If it's a switch thats hard set to 100mbs/full duplex and you quad card's set to auto it'll end up running 100mbs half duplex (which would explain some of the errors). From memory you can check what you're quad card's running by issuing the command:
kstat qfe | egrep 'link_speed|link_duplex'
PM
# 3
The thing is, I've set the qfe card to 100Full in /platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/qfe.conf ( if i am not mistaken ) and it's still giving me input errors... when I swap the qfe card with a CE card everything works fine, no input errors on the ce interfaces...
# 5
The switch was checked, the port is set to 100full as well, the cable has been swapped, still no change on the QFE side. I think it's got to do with the QFE itself and the V240, the same problem is happening on a second V240 server with the same type of QFE card in it, and again , the moment we swapped them with CE cards everything worked fine... Sun does not mention about any issues with Quad cards and V240s, so I'm really out of ideas here...
The qfe drivers have been installed so it's not a config issue...
