I have a bunch of Solaris servers that will be moved to a gigabit network connection. How do I view the network settings on the network cards and determine if they can run on gigabit network? What commands I can use? This will help me if my group has to purchase new network cards. Thanks for you help.
Well, you might be able to use 'ndd -get /dev/<int> ?' and make some guesses based on the available attributes. But I'm not aware of any API that you can use to query the capabilities of the network hardware.
Building a table on your own and populating it with the possible hardware choices may be simpler.
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Darren
You can also trawl the Sunsolve support web site for Infodocs,
and spend time at Docs.Sun.Com and the Sun System Handbook, as well.
Generally, you just need to "know" your hardware.
Your newer systems will likely have a gigabit interface inside,
while the older systems will only have 10/100 chipsets for connectivity.
Your bge interfaces tell me those are newer systems,
with a Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet chipset.
hme is a 10/100 chipset that was widely use in a previous generation
of Sun's SPARC-based systems. ( Highspeed Media Ethernet )
