Sun Microsystems Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter - Manuals

vi Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 ▼ To Configure Static VLANs 60 A. Specifications 63 Connectors 63 Low-Profile Performance Specifications 65 Low-Profile Physical Characteristics 65 Low-Profile Power Requirements 66 ExpressModule Perfo...

Contents vii ▼ To Configure Bonding for Multiple e1000 Interfaces 86 Index 87

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xiv Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 Caution – Not all power cords have the same current ratings. Do not use the power cordprovided with your equipment for any otherproducts or use. Household extension cordsdo not have overload protectio...

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xxix Preface The Sun™ PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet adapters consist of four cards: ■ Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet UTP Low Profile card ■ Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF Low Profile card ■ Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet UTP ExpressModule ■ Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit E...

xxx Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 Chapter 4 describes how to configure the e1000g driver parameters. Chapter 5 explains virtual local area networks (VLANs) and provides configuration instructions and examples. Appendix A lists the spe...

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xxxii Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 Related Documentation The documents listed as online are available at: http://www.sun.com/documentation Documentation, Support, and Training Third-Party Web Sites Sun is not responsible for the avai...

Preface xxxiii Sun Welcomes Your Comments Sun is interested in improving its documentation and welcomes your comments andsuggestions. You can submit your comments by going to: http://www.sun.com/hwdocs/feedback Please include the title and part number of your document with your feedback: Sun PCI-Exp...

1 C H A P T E R 1 Sun PCI-Express Dual GigabitEthernet Adapter Overview This chapter describes the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet hardware andsoftware, and includes the following sections: ■ “Hardware Overview” on page 1 ■ “ExpressModule Hardware and Software Requirements” on page 8 ■ “Patche...

2 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMFLow-Profile Adapter The Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF adapter is a low-profile, dual-portGigabit Ethernet fiber-optics PCI-Express adapter. It operat...

4 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 LED Displays on the UTP Low-Profile Adapter Four LEDs are displayed on the front panel of the Sun PCI-Express Dual GigabitEthernet UTP adapter. They are labeled on the front panel as shown in TABLE 1-2 ...

Chapter 1 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Overview 9 Patches and Updates Check the Sun Update Connection to ensure that you have the latest recommendedPatch Clusters and Security Patches. You can download the latest recommendedPatch Clusters and Security Patches at: http://sunsolve.sun...

Chapter 1 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet Adapter Overview 11 Features of the Sun PCI-Express DualGigabit Ethernet UTP ExpressModule ■ Meets single-wide PCI-Express ExpressModule form factor requirements. ■ Based on the Intel 82571EB 10/100/1000 Mbit/sec Ethernet controller. ■ Provides two 1 G...

13 C H A P T E R 2 Installing the Adapter This chapter describes how to install the adapter in your system and verify that ithas been installed correctly. This chapter contains the following sections: ■ “Installing the Low-Profile Adapter” on page 13 ■ “Installing the ExpressModule Adapter” on page ...

14 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 5. Holding the adapter by the edges, align the adapter edge connector with the PCI-E slot. Slide the adapter face plate into the small slot at the end of the PCI-Eopening. 6. Applying even pressure at ...

Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 15 2. List the network devices on your system Use the show-nets command to list the system devices. You should see the full path name of the network devices, similar to the following example. In this example the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet devices are shown...

16 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 b. Then use the .properties command to make sure that the device is connected to the network. Your output will be similar to the following example: ok cd /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/network@0,1 ok .properties...

Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 17 The phy-type value is assigned as follows: Note – If you are going to set the local-mac-address property, note the local-mac-address of your device at this time. See “Setting the local-mac- address Property” on page 17 for more information. Setting the local-mac-a...

18 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 Rebooting the System After verifying the adapter installation, use the boot -r command to perform a reconfiguration boot on your system. The reconfiguration boot attaches the driver to the adapter. You...

Chapter 2 Installing the Adapter 19 3. Press the Attention button. The power LED should blink about 10 times then remain a steady green light. ▼ To Verify the ExpressModule Installation 1. Use the cfgadm command to verify the ExpressModule installation: If the ExpressModule is properly installed and...

21 C H A P T E R 3 Configuring ipge and e1000 Driver Parameters The ipge (1M) device driver controls the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces for Solaris SPARC systems. You can manually set the ipge device driver parameters to customize each device in your system. The e1000 device driver...

22 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 ■ 100 Mbit/sec, half-duplex ■ 10 Mbit/sec, full-duplex ■ 10 Mbit/sec, half-duplex The Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet adapter performs autonegotiation withthe remote end of the link (the link par...

Chapter 3 Configuring ipge and e1000 Driver Parameters 23 ▼ To Specify Device Instances for the ndd Utility Before you use the ndd utility to get or set a parameter for a ipge device, you must specify the device instance for the utility. 1. Check the /etc/path_to_inst file to identify the instance a...

24 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 In noninteractive mode, you invoke the utility to execute a specific command. Oncethe command is executed, you exit the utility. In interactive mode, you can use theutility to get or set more than one ...

Chapter 3 Configuring ipge and e1000 Driver Parameters 25 2. To list all the parameters supported by the ipge driver, type ? . See TABLE 3-4 through TABLE 3-1 for parameter descriptions. Setting the Autonegotiation Mode By default, autonegotiation is set to on . This means that the adapter communica...

26 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 1. Set the following driver parameters to the values that are described in the documentation that shipped with your link partner (for example, a switch): ■ adv-1000fdx-cap ■ adv-100fdx-cap ■ adv-100hdx...

Chapter 3 Configuring ipge and e1000 Driver Parameters 27 ▼ To Set Driver Parameters Using an ipge.conf File 1. Obtain the hardware path names for the ipge devices in the device tree. a. Check the /etc/driver_aliases file to identify the name associated with a particular device: b. Locate the path n...

28 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 ■ unit-address = "1" 2. Set the parameters for the ipge devices in the /kernel/drv/ipge.conf file. In the following example, the adv_autoneg_cap and adv_1000fdx_cap parameters are set for all S...

Chapter 3 Configuring ipge and e1000 Driver Parameters 29 If the link partner is not capable of autonegotiation (when lp_autoneg_cap is 0), the remaining information described in TABLE 3-1 is not relevant and the parameter value = 0. If the link partner is capable of autonegotiation (when lp_autoneg...

30 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 Reporting Link Partner Capabilities ▼ To Discover Link Partner Capabilities ● Use the kstat command to discover link partner capabilities. ▼ To Discover Link Settings ● Use the kstat command to discove...

Chapter 3 Configuring ipge and e1000 Driver Parameters 31 ▼ To Check Layer 2 Configuration ● View the maximum transmission unit (MTU) configuration of a ipge instance at any time by using the kstat command. The kstat mac_mtu variable represents the complete size of the Ethernet frame, which includes...

Chapter 3 Configuring ipge and e1000 Driver Parameters 33 kstat Statistics TABLE 3-3 describes the kstat transmit and receive parameters. cap_10hdx Local interface half-duplex capability0 = Not 10 Mbit/sec half-duplex capable1 = 10 Mbit/sec half-duplex capable cap_asm_pause Local interface flow cont...

Chapter 3 Configuring ipge and e1000 Driver Parameters 35 TABLE 3-4 describes the parameters and settings for the ipge device driver. TABLE 3-4 ipge Driver Parameter, Status, and Descriptions Parameter Status Description instance Read and write Device instance adv-autoneg-cap Read and write Operatio...

36 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 Operational Mode Parameters The parameters in TABLE 3-5 determine the transmit and receive speed and duplexing capability. TABLE 3-5 also describes the operational mode parameters and their default val...

Chapter 3 Configuring ipge and e1000 Driver Parameters 37 If all these parameters are set to 1, autonegotiation uses the highest speed possible.If all these parameters are set to 0, you receive the following error message: Flow Control Parameters The ipge device sources (transmits) and terminates (r...

38 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 data can be communicated. Two physical layer parameters control whether yourside is the master or the slave, or whether mastership is negotiated with the linkpartner. Caution – Do not adjust the link c...

40 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 Interrupt Parameters TABLE 3-10 describes the receive interrupt blanking values. Jumbo Frames The variable accept-jumbo enables the driver to instruct the upper layers that the driver is operating in J...

Chapter 3 Configuring ipge and e1000 Driver Parameters 41 ▼ To Configure Jumbo Frames Using ndd 1. Shut down and unplumb the interface. 2. Set the instance number: In this example, the instance number set is 0. 3. Set the instance to accept Jumbo Frames: 4. Plumb the interface up: where xx.xx.xx.xx ...

43 C H A P T E R 4 Configuring e1000g Driver Parameters The e1000g device driver controls the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces for Solaris x86 systems. You can manually set the e1000g device driver parameters to customize each device in your system. This chapter lists the available d...

44 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 The Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet ExpressModule performsautonegotiation with the remote end of the link (the link partner) to select a commonmode of operation. The Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit ...

48 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 Note – Forced 1000Mbps full-duplex is not supported. ▼ To Check Link Partner Settings ● Type the kstat command: $ kstat e1000g:0 module: e1000g instance: 0 name: e1000g0 class: net brdcstrcv 432138 brd...

50 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet e1000g Driver Parameters You can manually configure the e1000g device driver parameters to customize each Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet device in your syst...

52 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 Configurable Operational Mode Parameters The parameters in TABLE 4-3 determine the transmit and receive speed and duplexing capability. TABLE 4-3 also describes the operational mode parameters and thei...

Chapter 4 Configuring e1000g Driver Parameters 55 Refer to the documentation that came with your switch for exact commands toconfigure Jumbo Frames support. ▼ To Configure Jumbo Frames in a Solaris x86Environment 1. Edit the /kernel/drv/e1000g.conf file: 2. Modify the MaxFrameSize value: 3. Reboot f...

56 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 Note – The MTU size cannot be set to higher than max limit in e1000g.conf . For example: if MaxFrameSize=0,0,2... then max MTU of e1000g2 will be 8k, First plumb of e1000g2 the MTU will be set to 8168 ...

57 C H A P T E R 5 Configuring VLANs This chapter explains virtual local area networks (VLANs) in detail and providesconfiguration instructions and examples. It contains the following sections: ■ “Overview of VLANs” on page 57 ■ “Configuring VLANs” on page 59 With multiple VLANs on an adapter, a ser...

Chapter 5 Configuring VLANs 59 ■ VLAN 2 includes the Main Server, Clients 1 and 2 by means of a shared mediasegment, and Client 5. This is a software development group. ■ VLAN 3 includes the Main Server, the Accounting Server, and Client 4. This is anaccounting group. The Main Server is a high-use s...

60 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 IP subnets when setting up a VLAN network interface. This means that each VIDassigned to a VLAN interface of a physical network interface will belong to differentsubnets. Tagging an Ethernet frame requ...

Chapter 5 Configuring VLANs 61 2. Use the ifconfig(1M) to configure a VLAN virtual device, for example: The output of ifconfig -a on a system having VLAN devices ipge123000 and ipge224000 : 3. On the switch, set VLAN tagging and set VLAN ports to coincide with the VLANs you have set up on the server...

63 A P P E N D I X A Specifications This appendix lists the specifications for the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet adapter.It contains the following sections: ■ “Connectors” on page 63 ■ “Low-Profile Performance Specifications” on page 65 ■ “Low-Profile Performance Specifications” on page 65 ■...

Appendix A Specifications 65 TABLE A-4 lists the characteristics of the connector used by the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet UTP adapter. Low-Profile Performance Specifications Low-Profile Physical Characteristics TABLE A-4 ExpressModule Connector Link Characteristics Description Distance Ope...

69 A P P E N D I X B Diagnostic Software This appendix provides an overview of the SunVTS™ diagnostic application andinstructions for updating the SunVTS software to recognize the adapter. Thisappendix contains the following sections: ■ “SunVTS Diagnostic Software” on page 69 ■ “Updating SunVTS to R...

70 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 http://www.sun.com/documentaiton Select the document for the Solaris release on your system. Updating SunVTS to Recognize theAdapter Current versions of SunVTS do not recognize the Sun PCI-Express Dual...

Appendix B Diagnostic Software 71 ▼ To Update SunVTS to Recognize theExpressModule Adapter 1. Connect a loopback cable. 2. Ensure that the SunVTS software and the e1000g driver are installed on your system. 3. Add the following lines to the /opt/SUNWvts/lib/conf/netlbtest.conf and /opt/SUNWvts/lib/c...

72 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 Using the OpenBoot PROM FCode Self-Test The Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet Low-Profile adapter self-test is a suite oftests that reside in the adapter ’s FCode PROM. You can only invoke the FCod...

Appendix B Diagnostic Software 73 4. Set the diag-switch? parameter to true in order to see the diagnostic power-on self-test (POST) messages. 5. Reset the system to activate these parameter changes. 6. Use the show-nets command to display the list of network devices on the system. Among the list of...

74 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 7. Use the test command and the device paths found in Step 6 to test the adapter when you use the FCode self-test. The structure of the test command line includes the following device parameters: where...

Appendix B Diagnostic Software 75 Note – To test all of the interfaces of the adapter, you need to execute the test command separately for each SUNW,ipge interface. If all of the tests pass, you will see these messages: If the adapter being tested is the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMFadap...

76 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 9. At the ok prompt, reset the auto-boot? configuration variable to true. 10. Reset and reboot the system. Refer to the system’s documentation for the correct procedures for bringing up thesystem. ok s...

77 A P P E N D I X C Installing the Sun PCI-Express DualGigabit Ethernet Device Driver onLinux Platforms This appendix explains how to install the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernetdevice driver in a Linux environment. This appendix contains the following sections: ■ “Setting Up the Driver on a L...

78 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 2. Build the man pages (optional): For RedHat, use the following command: 3. Change to the rpm directory: For RedHat, use the following command: 4. Install the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet rpm...

Appendix C Installing the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet Device Driver on Linux Platforms 79 7. Verify that the driver is loaded. In the following example, the e1000 driver is shown in bold italic . On your system the driver will be indistinguishable from the other modules. # lsmod Module Siz...

80 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 8. Run the dmesg command to see which devices the e1000 driver was mapped to: 9. Add the e1000 interfaces to the /etc/modules.conf file for 2.4 based kernels and to /etc/modprobe.conf file for 2.6 base...

82 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 2. Create the conf file (for example, sysctl_e1000.conf ) that will be called by the sysctl utility. Setting Driver Parameters in a LinuxEnvironment In a Linux operating system, the driver parameters c...

Appendix C Installing the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet Device Driver on Linux Platforms 83 ▼ To Set e1000 Parameters in a Linux Environment 1. Remove the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet device driver, if it is already loaded. 2. Load the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet device dr...

Appendix C Installing the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet Device Driver on Linux Platforms 85 ▼ To Configure VLANs in a Linux Environment 1. Ensure that the e1000 module is loaded: 2. Plumb the Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet interface: where xxx.xxx.xx.xxx = the IP address of the interf...

86 Sun PCI-Express Dual Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2006 ▼ To Configure Bonding for Multiple e1000 Interfaces 1. Modify the /etc/modules.conf file for 2.4 kernels or the /etc/modprobe.conf file for 2.6 kernels file by adding these lines: where: ■ bond0 is th...