Need help with a Blade 1500 with dual NICs
I have a Sun blade 1500 with Dual NICS and when I run ifconfig -a it only shows one NIC!
How do I get it to recognize the other NIC.
Also, what would the name be for the other NIC... the one that shows is labeled ce0
This is what shows in ifconfig -a:
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
ce0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 198.177.36.60 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 198.177.36.255
ether 0:3:ba:cf:3b:77
thanks
Joe
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jpropati] at [2007-11-26 8:23:07]
# 1
Both versions of the SB1500 had only one network port integrated to the systemboard,
[url=http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunBlade1500/spec.html]SunBla de 1500 (Red bezel) Specifications in the SSH[/url]
[url=http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/SunBlade1500S/spec.html]SunBl ade 1500 (Silver bezel) Specifications in the SSH[/url]
so I am guessing that you've installed an add-on card to the system.
To begin with, who's card is it ?Sun-branded or 3rd party?
Are all necessary software packages installed, as well?
(You cannot use a PC's NIC in a SPARC system, by the way.
... and not everyone realizes that.)
If you have a qualified Ethernet adapter added to the system,
and there has been at least one reconfiguration reboot after it was installed,
then there is a small chance that you may just need to toggle one setting in OBP.
Change the setting for local-mac-address from false to true.
See Chapter 3 of the OBP 4.x Guide
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-1177-10?q=816-1177
# 2
I went into the env mode or stop-a mode and changed "local-mac-address" to true, yet this did not help pick up the device.
The card was purchased with the Blade 1500 so it is a compliant device through Sun.
I also pulled the card out and ran a boot -r, which still did not see the NIC!
Not sure if there is a command to run that will help see the NIC card!
Joe
# 3
Since it is a NIC provided by Sun, there will be a Sun part number
on a barcode label, right on the card itself.
The first seven digits of that part number would help us see if there are
any online documents (manuals).Please get the number.
It will be in the form of 501-xxxx and there may or may not be any punctuation in that number.
Just curious, what slot did they have it in ?
We could attempt additional tests at OBP level, but not just yet.
Let's see what we've got, first.
# 4
I also just logged in to Sunsolve and looked through the Spectrum version of the SSH.
The onboard NIC is a different chipset.
The onboard device instance would be bge0.
It's a Broadcom BCM5703 Gigabit Ethernet chip on the systemboard.
Your add-on card is probably the ce0 that you saw from IFCONFIG.
The card part number would help to sort it all out.
# 5
Hi,If we assume it磗 a bge0 NIC, I would try a simple # ifconfig bge0 plumbor # ifconfig bge1 plumbcheers
TORO at 2007-7-6 21:32:17 >
# 6
> (You cannot use a PC's NIC in a SPARC system, by the way.
... and not everyone realizes that.)
That may have true when Solaris 9 (SPARC) was initially released. But i've had at least one success with using a PC-based PCI-X NIC in a Sun Blade-1000.
It was a Dell "4R672" 1000B-T PCI-X NIC (BCM5703X Rev A3) in a Sun Blade-1000. The installer for Solaris (SPARC) 9 09/05 HW detected and configured the card without any problem. I suspect other cards will work, too (IBM and HP also make their own OEM BCM5703 cards -- warning, the HP has a different PCI subvendor-ID. Both the Dell and IBM cards are labeled with Broadcom as PCI-subvendor ID.)
In my Blade-1000, Solaris-9 identifed the 1000BT part as 'bge0' (The Blade-1000's integrated 10/100 NIC shows up as 'eri0')
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