Solaris 10 Speed and Duplex Settings: bge


 
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Old 08-31-2009
Solaris 10 Speed and Duplex Settings: bge

Evening,

I am attempting to change the speed and duplex settings on a single interface on a bge card on an m3000 SPARC server. Currently the settings are as follows:

Code:
bge0            link: up        speed: 1000  Mbps       duplex: full
bge1            link: up        speed: 100   Mbps       duplex: half
bge2            link: up        speed: 1000  Mbps       duplex: full
bge3            link: unknown   speed: 0     Mbps       duplex: unknown
nxge0           link: down      speed: 1000  Mbps       duplex: full
nxge1           link: up        speed: 100   Mbps       duplex: full
nxge2           link: up        speed: 1000  Mbps       duplex: full
nxge3           link: down      speed: 1000  Mbps       duplex: full

I would like to change the bge1 interface to full duplex permanently. I read that I could make changes to the /platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/bge.conf file to make this permanent, however all of our attempts have not yielded the expected results.

Additional Information:

Code:
root@dssbfw101a.myhughesnet.com$ grep bge /etc/path_to_inst
"/pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/network@4" 0 "bge"
"/pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/network@4,1" 1 "bge"
"/pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@2/pci@0/network@4" 2 "bge"
"/pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@2/pci@0/network@4,1" 3 "bge"

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Last edited by DukeNuke2; 08-31-2009 at 04:37 PM..
# 2  
Old 08-31-2009
if you use autoneg on your switch (and the switch is capable of 1000full) the interface should use the desired settings!

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# 3  
Old 08-31-2009
Thanks for the quick reply, I will be sure to tag my code in the future.

My team does not have access to change the config on the switch (which is currently set to 100 full). In the mean time I have created a startup script in /etc/rc2.d/ to make the changes, though I would still like to know how to make it work with the conifg file.
# 4  
Old 08-31-2009
would be helpfull if you post the config file and what you've changed...
# 5  
Old 08-31-2009
Here is the code located in the /platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/bge.conf


Code:
bge-rx-rings            = 1;
bge-tx-rings            = 1;
# interface bge0
name="bge" parent="/pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0" unit-address="4" \
adv_autoneg_cap=0 adv_1000fdx_cap=1 adv_1000hdx_cap=0 \
adv_100fdx_cap=0 adv_100hdx_cap=0 adv_100T4_cap=0 adv_10fdx_cap=0 \
adv_10hdx_cap=0;

# interface bge1
name="bge" parent="/pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0" unit-address="4,1" \
adv_autoneg_cap=0 adv_1000fdx_cap=0 adv_1000hdx_cap=0 \
adv_100fdx_cap=1 adv_100hdx_cap=0 adv_100T4_cap=0 adv_10fdx_cap=0 \
adv_10hdx_cap=0;

# interface bge2
name="bge" parent="/pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@2/pci@0" unit-address="4" \
adv_autoneg_cap=0 adv_1000fdx_cap=1 adv_1000hdx_cap=0 \
adv_100fdx_cap=0 adv_100hdx_cap=0 adv_100T4_cap=0 adv_10fdx_cap=0 \
adv_10hdx_cap=0;

# interface bge3
name="bge" parent="/pci@0,600000/pci@0/pci@2/pci@0" unit-address="4,1" \
adv_autoneg_cap=0 adv_1000fdx_cap=1 adv_1000hdx_cap=0 \
adv_100fdx_cap=0 adv_100hdx_cap=0 adv_100T4_cap=0 adv_10fdx_cap=0 \
adv_10hdx_cap=0;

# 6  
Old 08-31-2009
and where are YOUR changes in the file? do you have a backup of the original file before you make any changes?
# 7  
Old 08-31-2009
What I posted before are my changes, the original file includes only commented out material and the following:

Code:
#########################################################################
#
# The property below represents the list of subsystem vendor/device pairs
# with which driver operation is supported.  This list will be updated and
# extended as new subsystems are validated ...
#
bge-known-subsystems    = 0x108e1647,
                          0x108e1648,
                          0x108e16a7,
                          0x108e16a8,
                          0x17c20010,
                          0x17341013,
                          0x101402a6,
                          0x10f12885,
                          0x17c20020,
                          0x10b71006,
                          0x10280109,
                          0x1028865d,
                          0x0e11005a,
                          0x103c12bc;
#########################################################################

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