QFE Card on Solaris 10 and Ultra 5
Hi,
I have installed a Sun qfe card on my Sun Ultra 5 running Solaris 10.
ifconfig -a shows the ports configured, running, up and with the correct IP and netmask. It's using local MAC address so each card has it's own MAC.
I cant ping or ping from the qfe interfaces, the onboard hme is fine.
I've disabled ipf, checked the ndd settings match the hme interface.
The strange thing is if I snoop the mac address of the qfe port I can see network traffic but if I snoop the IP address there is nothing.
It looks like the card is functioning properly (I've tried a know good one) but something between the MAC and IP is getting screwed?
Any ideas?
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wibble100a] at [2007-11-26 16:07:39]
# 1
I do not have any particular answers for you,
but this posting from early December 2006 seems so very similar.
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?forumID=836&threadID=5113728
(there was no resolution there, however.)
A [url=http://onesearch.sun.com/search/onesearch/index.jsp?qt=qfe&subCat=& ;site=dev&dftab=&chooseCat=javaall&col=developer-forums]forum search, in the Solaris forum instead of in the Hardware forum[/url],
with keyword "qfe", brings up fewer than 80 hits.That's how I found the first link.
Perhaps a quick review of those earlier postings can point out something for you.
# 2
Thanks for the info, I managed to get the qfe card working, I ran ifconfig hme0 to down the hme interface and qfe0 started working.
Now though none of the other qfe ports work, unless I down qfe0 and then qfe1 works but none of the others.
It looks like only one network port is allowed to work at one time which indicates I'm missing some fundamental point (or ability!!).
Is there something which needs to be set up to allow a machine to have more than one network port running at anyone time?
All interfaces have there own MAC and IP.
# 3
Here's a link to the OBP 3.x Reference manual at Docs.Sun.Com.
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/806-1377-10?q=openboot+command+reference
Keep it for future reference about the systemboard firmware.
Go into OBP and change the setting for "local-mac-address?" in firmware.
Change it from false to true.
See if that lets you run your system with all five interface ports as unique devices.
You can search these forums as well as do a generic Google search
on keyword local-mac-address, for an understanding of how it may help.
It's NOT discussed in that OBP manual I linked above.
# 4
Thanks for the reply, I did set the use local mac address to true when I first spotted the problem.
Trying a complete reinstall at the moment with the qfe card in mainly because I've run out of space on / and with no tape drive or suitable spare disks there is no reliable way of increasing the fs other than laying the disk out differently.
I'll pop a post up if it makes any difference...... or if it doesn't (which is more likely).
