Sun Microsystems 10GBE XFP - Manual

Sun Microsystems 10GBE XFP

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Table of Contents:

  • Page 3 – Contents; Preface
  • Page 4 – Network Configuration
  • Page 5 – ethtool; Configuring the Jumbo Frames Feature; nxge; Configuring VLANs
  • Page 6 – Specifications; netlbtest; Index
  • Page 7 – Tables
  • Page 9 – Figures
  • Page 11 – Declaration of Conformity; EMC; USA—FCC Class A; Safety
  • Page 13 – Note –; Solaris Hardware Compatibility Guide; How This Document Is Organized; Chapter 1
  • Page 14 – Chapter 6; Using UNIX Commands
  • Page 15 – Shell Prompts; su
  • Page 16 – Related Documentation; The documents listed as online are available at:; Third-Party Web Sites
  • Page 17 – Sun Welcomes Your Comments; Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide
  • Page 19 – Product Overview; “Components” on page 1; Components; Standard height bracket; Product Description
  • Page 20 – Hardware and Software Requirements; lists the supported hardware and software.
  • Page 21 – Features; CPU/thread affinity and CPU load balancing at L1,L2,L3 and L4
  • Page 23 – Installing and Setting Up the Driver; To Download the Driver on a Solaris Platform; Locate and download the
  • Page 25 – A menu similar to the following displays:; Select the packages you want to install:; Press Return or type
  • Page 26 – driver is installed on the system:; To Remove the Driver from a Solaris Platform; To discover the driver packages run the; pkginfo; To remove the driver packages run the; pkgrm
  • Page 27 – Download the driver RPM for your operating system:; rpm; tool to install the driver on SuSe and RedHat Linux.
  • Page 28 – kmod; Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Profile Adapter:; interfaces to the; modprobe nxge
  • Page 29 – command to check the parameter configurations that apply to; To Remove the Driver From a Linux Platform; To remove the driver packages from a Linux Platform use the
  • Page 31 – This chapter contains the following section:; not; must; Caution –; not
  • Page 32 – Do; To Install the Adapter; Power off all of the peripherals connected to your system.
  • Page 33 – adapter until it is firmly seated in the slot.
  • Page 34 – Secure the retaining clip; Detach the wrist strap and close the system unit.
  • Page 35 – Installing an Optical Transceiver
  • Page 36 – To Install an Optical Transceiver; Pull the white locking handle into the full horizontal position.; label and the edge connector is visible to you.; until it is firmly seated in the slot.
  • Page 37 – Push the handle closed to lock the optical transceiver in place.
  • Page 38 – Verifying the Hardware Installation; before; To Verify the Hardware Installation; sequence to interrupt the boot process and display the OpenBoot (; List the network devices on your system.
  • Page 39 – command to display a list of device properties.; properties
  • Page 40 – Type the following when you finish looking at the; Rebooting the System; After verifying the adapter installation, use the
  • Page 41 – “Configuring the Network Host Files” on page 23; Configuring the Network Host Files; After installing the driver software, you must create a
  • Page 42 – grep; command to search the; “Setting Parameters Using the; command to set up the adapter ’s nxge interface.; ifconfig
  • Page 43 – number; Create an appropriate entry in the
  • Page 44 – Low Profile Adapter onto the server ’s drive.; file in the diskless client’s root directory.; “Configuring the Network Host Files” on; boot
  • Page 45 – Solaris Advanced Installation Guide; Solaris Advanced Installation
  • Page 46 – Find the root directory of the client system.; server ’s hard drive.
  • Page 47 – shutdown; command to find the device path of the 10-; prompt, boot the client system using the full device path of the 10-
  • Page 48 – Ethernet software on the client system.; Solaris installation.; command to show configuration information for all; pkginfo | grep SUNWnxge
  • Page 49 – Fiber XFP Low Profile Adapter.
  • Page 50 – Press the F10 key to save the boot configuration changes and exit.; System should reboot after saving the boot configuration.
  • Page 51 – Press the F12 key to install the OS from the network.; driver and configure the adapter.
  • Page 53 – Configuring the; The
  • Page 54 – Setting; Noninteractive and Interactive Modes
  • Page 55 – To Specify Device Instances for the; file to identify the instance associated with a; To Specify Parameter Values Using the; ndd; To Use the; To modify a parameter value in interactive mode, specify
  • Page 56 – To list all the parameters supported by the; Setting Parameters Using the; prtconf; To access any man page, type the; man; command plus the name of the man page.; man prtconf
  • Page 57 – To Set Driver Parameters Using an; The last part in double quotes is the driver name.
  • Page 60 – c. In the following example, the ports of; all; the Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit
  • Page 61 – node needs to be specified.; file
  • Page 62 – following to the
  • Page 63 – To obtain higher throughput, add the following to a startup script:
  • Page 64 – Setting Parameters on a Linux Platform; To Set Parameters Using the; Determine which parameters are available using the
  • Page 66 – Following are some common parameters that can be changed:
  • Page 67 – To change RX interrupt Coalesce parameters use the
  • Page 68 – To Set Parameters Using the Bundled; To get a list of tunable parameters, use the; To get a particular variable use the; get
  • Page 69 – set; ) that will be called by the; sysctl
  • Page 71 – “Jumbo Frames Overview” on page 53; Jumbo Frames Overview; to configure Jumbo Frames support.; Checking Jumbo Frames Configurations
  • Page 72 – kstat; command to display driver statistics, for example:; shows all the statistics that
  • Page 74 – Enable Jumbo Frames for a port using the; To Check Layer 2 Configuration; View the maximum transmission unit (MTU) configuration of an; instance at
  • Page 75 – To Check Layer 3 Configuration; Check the Layer 3 configuration by using the; dladm; command with the; software is installed.; where
  • Page 76 – Where; utility to display driver statistics, for example:; utility with; ifconfig eth
  • Page 77 – To get more specific statitics, use the
  • Page 79 – Configuring Link Aggregation; “Overview of Link Aggregation” on page 61; Overview of Link Aggregation
  • Page 80 – a. Unplumb the interfaces to be aggregated:; As the command returns, one line appears in; dladm show-link aggr33
  • Page 81 – Plumb up the interface; aggr; command to display statistics:; ifconfig aggr33 plumb
  • Page 82 – command to display LACP specific information:; To Configure Bonding for Multiple; file for 2.6 kernels file by adding these lines:; mode; modprobe bonding
  • Page 83 – is the master of the two interfaces eth4 and eth5.
  • Page 85 – “Overview of VLANs” on page 67; Overview of VLANs; shows an example network that uses VLANs.
  • Page 86 – The example network has the following features:
  • Page 87 – nxge0 and
  • Page 88 – shows the Ethernet Tag Header format.; received by that adapter must be in VLAN-tagged format.; To Configure Static VLANs; file for each VLAN that will be configured for; Device PPA
  • Page 89 – to configure a VLAN virtual device, for example:; The output of; you’ve set up on the server.; Using the examples in; To Configure VLANs in a Linux Environment
  • Page 91 – “Connectors” on page 73; Connectors
  • Page 92 – 0 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Profile Adapter.
  • Page 95 – Diagnostic Software; “SunVTS Diagnostic Software” on page 77; SunVTS Diagnostic Software; nettest
  • Page 96 – Select the document for the Solaris release on your system.; To Update SunVTS to Recognize the Adapter; Ensure that the SunVTS software and the; driver are installed on your
  • Page 97 – Using the SunVTS; command to bring the Ethernet device down before running; Ensure that the SunVTS software and the; is the instance number of the interface.; down; unplumb
  • Page 99 – Symbols
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Page 3 - Contents; Preface

iii Contents Preface xiii 1. Product Overview 1 Components 1 Product Description 1 Hardware and Software Requirements 2 Features 3 2. Installing and Setting Up the Driver 5 Downloading and Installing the Driver on a Solaris SPARC or x86 Platform 5 ▼ To Download the Driver on a Solaris Platform 5 ▼ T...

Page 4 - Network Configuration

iv Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • January 2009 ▼ To Verify the Hardware Installation 18 Rebooting the System 20 4. Network Configuration 21 Configuring the Network Host Files 21 Setting Up a 10-Gigabit Ethernet Network on a Diskless Client System 23 ▼ To Set Up a 10-Gigabit Ether...

Page 5 - ethtool; Configuring the Jumbo Frames Feature; nxge; Configuring VLANs

Contents v ▼ To Set Parameters Using the ethtool Utility 44 ▼ To Set Parameters Using the Bundled configtool Utility 48 Tuning for Maximum Performance on a Linux Platform 49 6. Configuring the Jumbo Frames Feature 51 Jumbo Frames Overview 51 Checking Jumbo Frames Configurations 51 ▼ To Show the Driv...

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