need information on sun ethernet
Hi All
I wanted some information on the device convention in solaris .
We have a E4500 server having two ethernet port , one of them is hme0 and we are not able to figure whats the name of the other so that we can use it to connect another cable to the backbone to speed up the system
below is the result of prtconf on the system
SUNW,Ultra-Enterprise
SUNW,hme, instance #1
SUNW,fas, instance #1
we are not able to figure out what is the naming convention for the fas instance .
even ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
hme0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 10.192.0.239 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 10.192.255.255
ether 8:0:20:8a:6d:6b
please advice
Regards
Srivathsa Bhargava
[924 byte] By [
srivab] at [2007-11-26 7:37:12]
# 1
Since you can run the prtconf command, it appears that you have Solaris installed.
Therefore try the following command, as root user, and paste
the complete output back into this discussion thread:
# /usr/platform/sun4u/sbin/prtdiag -v
If you are not in a scrollable window,
you may have to pipe that command to more.
Do you have physical access to the E4500?
By that, I mean -- can you walk up to it and inspect it, visually?
Or ...are you remote from it and have to do everything by typing a command?
We may need to know where everything might be, physically.
Sometimes it helps to just look at the computer and even touch it.
Ethernet naming conventions, as you may have guessed,
are based upon whatever ethernet chipset is present.
If the only ports on that computer are the ones that are integrated
to the I/O boards, then they should all be HME ports,
which I seem to remember may stand for 'highspeed media ethernet'.
Add-on cards could be most anything
( 10baseT or 10/100baseT or gigabit or fibre or even 3rd party ).
But we'd still need to see the PRTDIAG report to be sure of that.
--
By the way, the FAS device instance is for a [url=http://www.sunshack.org/data/sh/2.1/infoserver.central/data/syshbk/General /SCSI_Disk_Tr.html#CONTROL]Qlogic SCSI controller[/url], not an ethernet controller.
# 2
I do have physical access to the system , there are two ports that looks like ethernet port , the 4500 comes with modules to add the videocard or the hdd , so one of the modules has 2 ports which look like ethernet , Im having solaris 10 on the system .
please help , you can also mail me directly to srivathsa.bhargava@wipro.com
bash-3.00# prtdiag -v
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u 8-slot Sun Enterprise E4500/E5500
System clock frequency: 100 MHz
Memory size: 1024Mb
========================= CPUs =========================
RunEcacheCPUCPU
Brd CPUModuleMHzMBImpl.Mask
- ---
71404008.0US-II10.0
71514008.0US-II10.0
========================= Memory =========================
Intrlv. Intrlv.
BrdBankMBStatusCondition SpeedFactorWith
-- - - - -- - -
711024ActiveOK60ns1-way
========================= IO Cards =========================
BusFreq
Brd Type MHzSlotName Model
- - - - --
1SBus250 QLGC,isp/sd (block)QLGC,ISP1000
1SBus252 SUNW,hme SUNW,501-2739
1SBus252 SUNW,fas/sd (block)
1SBus253 SUNW,hme
1SBus253 SUNW,fas/sd (block)
1SBus2513 SUNW,socal/sf (scsi-3)501-3060
1UPA1002 FFB, Double Buffered SUNW,501-4790
Detached Boards
===============
Slot StateTypeInfo
- --
3disableddiskDisk 0: Target: 10Disk 1: no disk
No failures found in System
===========================
No System Faults found
======================
========================= Environmental Status =========================
Keyswitch position is in Normal Mode
System Power Status: Redundant
System LED Status:GREENYELLOWGREEN
NormalONOFFBLINKING
Fans:
--
UnitStatus
-
RackOK
KeyOK
ACOK
System Temperatures (Celsius):
BrdStateCurrent Min Max Trend
- ---
1OK393451 stable
7OK332644 stable
CLKOK292440 stable
Power Supplies:
SupplyStatus
1OK
3OK
PPSOK
System 3.3vOK
System 5.0vOK
Peripheral 5.0v OK
Peripheral 12vOK
Auxiliary 5.0vOK
Peripheral 5.0v prechargeOK
Peripheral 12v prechargeOK
System 3.3v prechargeOK
System 5.0v prechargeOK
AC Power OK
========================= HW Revisions =========================
ASIC Revisions:
Brd FHC AC SBus0 SBus1 PCI0 PCI1 FEPS Board TypeAttributes
-- -- -- - - - --
115122UPA-SBus-SOC+100MHz Capable
3Unknown 100MHz Capable
715 CPU 100MHz Capable
System Board PROM revisions:
-
Board 1:FCODE 1.8.29 2001/06/18 17:26iPOST 3.4.29 2001/06/18 17:49
Board 7:OBP3.2.30 2002/10/25 14:03POST 3.9.30 2002/10/25 14:04
# 3
You do have multiple HME ethernet ports, and can just plumb the interfaces and make them work.
Let's see if I can describe what your PRTDIAG tells me...
You have one cpu board in slot #7, one disk board in slot #3, and one I/O board in slot #1.
Slot #5 should have a dummy filler panel and is not occupied by any board.
All boards are currently installed to the rear of the chassis
because you only have two power-cooling modules.
There is a firmware version mismatch between the cpu and I/O boards.
(... not severe, but rev29 is on the I/O and rev30 is on the cpu.Easy to fix with patch 103346.)
There are two 400MHz cpu modules and one solitary bank#1 of eight 128mb DIMMs.
The disk board has only one drive, and you're probably using it as the boot drive.
Your I/O board has a combo SCSI/Ethernet "SunSwift" card in SBUS slot #2, to the right of the graphics card.
That I/O board also has its integrated 10/100 Ethernet port.
You have a Creator graphics card in the center UPA slot position.
There is what is probably a 370-1703 Qlogic SCSI card in SBUS slot #0
in addition to the SCSI port that's integrated onto the I/O board..
... the I/O board references to "slot 13" are for the integrated features of fibre-channel and SCSI on that board.
Ignore the reference to the disk board as 'disabled'.
That is a quirk of how Solaris acknowledges such hardware.and has no effect on true functionality.
Just plumb the interfaces as necessary.
HME0 is the integrated port.
HME1 is on the SunSwift card in slot#2 of I/O board #1.
# 4
Hi
Thank you for the information , I tried to plumb the hme0 and hme1
but the result I get is bit weired the Mac address in both the interfaces is same , ie that its corrosponding to the same interface , can you please throw some light on this .
bash-3.00# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
hme0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 10.192.0.239 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 10.192.255.255
ether 8:0:20:8a:6d:6b
hme1: flags=1000842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 4
inet 192.168.0.1 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
ether 8:0:20:8a:6d:6b
# 5
I see that each interface has its own unique IP address,
and that they're configured to be on different subnets.
One is on a 10-net and the other is on a 192-net.
If your circumstances require the actual MAC address to be used, as well,
then there is a setting you can toggle in OBP.
Not every situation needs to use the MAC as well.Often, the configured IP is sufficient.
Your E4500 system uses OBP version 3.x
Here is the user guide for that version of firmware, from Docs.Sun.Com:
[url=http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/806-1377-10?q=openboot+command+reference] OBP 3.x Command Reference Manual[/url]
You can download a PDF copy of it from [url=http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/coll/216.2?q=openboot+command+reference ]HERE[/url]
You'll need to drop out of Solaris and get down to the OK prompt.
Find the variable for local-mac-address and change it as guided in that manual.
Once that is done, each Ethernet circuit will present its own MAC to the world.
# 6
Additionally, use the forum search.keyword local-mac-address?... yes, there's a question mark there, in the keyword.
# 7
thank you verymuch I think I have fixed the problem
