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Operating Systems AIX VIO SEA Adapters Post 302842655 by karlochacon on Friday 9th of August 2013 03:43:30 PM
Old 08-09-2013
Quote:
Originally Posted by ibmtech
Hello there,

lp-hea are the native adapters attached to the Balde itself (they are HEA, and each HEA has 4 Logical ports). We use them, say for the first installation or for servers where you don't want redundancy, they are SPOF (single point of failure) adapters.

Virtual adapters (l-lan), are created at VIOS/client level, we create them at VIO level to define the priority of VIOS and add multiple vlans to it. At client level we create those for it to communicate to outer world.

Physical cable are the actual cables from which the traffic goes in and out of the Blade, without the physical port your virtual adapter at VIO are of no use.

Now coming to SEA (shared ethernet adapter), to create a SEA you need a physical adapter, a virtual adapter (actually two, one with trunking priority, vlans (if you want) and other is called control channel adapter, ctrl chan adapter is the heart beat of SEA). Then the VIO create a new adapter called SEA, remember that SEA will not be visible from HMC, you can only see it when you are in VIO.

If you have SEA, it will be redundant and you can avoid SPOF.

thanks a lot

so for what I understood I have to use these to create SEA

Code:
ent2    Available 04-20 Gigabit Ethernet-SX PCI-X Adapter (14106703)
ent3    Available 04-21 Gigabit Ethernet-SX PCI-X Adapter (14106703)
ent4    Available       Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter (l-lan)
ent5    Available       Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter (l-lan)
ent6    Available       Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter (l-lan)
ent7    Available       Virtual I/O Ethernet Adapter (l-lan)


is it too much to ask who to do it? is by command or using smitty

thanks a lot
 

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LEARN ABOUT FREEBSD

if_ix

IXGBE(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						  IXGBE(4)

NAME

     ixgbe -- Intel(R) 10Gb Ethernet driver for the FreeBSD operating system

SYNOPSIS

     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:

	   device ixgbe

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

	   if_ixgbe_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

     The ixgbe driver provides support for PCI 10Gb Ethernet adapters based on the Intel 82598EB Intel(R) Network Connections.	The driver sup-
     ports Jumbo Frames, MSIX, TSO, and RSS.

     For questions related to hardware requirements, refer to the documentation supplied with your Intel 10GbE adapter.  All hardware requirements
     listed apply to use with FreeBSD.

     Support for Jumbo Frames is provided via the interface MTU setting.  Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the ifconfig(8) utility
     configures the adapter to receive and transmit Jumbo Frames.  The maximum MTU size for Jumbo Frames is 16114.

     This driver version supports VLANs.  For information on enabling VLANs, see ifconfig(8).

HARDWARE

     The ixgbe driver supports the following cards:

     o	 Intel(R) 10 Gigabit XF SR/AF Dual Port Server Adapter
     o	 Intel(R) 10 Gigabit XF SR/LR Server Adapter
     o	 Intel(R) 82598EB 10 Gigabit AF Network Connection
     o	 Intel(R) 82598EB 10 Gigabit AT CX4 Network Connection

DIAGNOSTICS

     ixgbe%d: Unable to allocate bus resource: memory  A fatal initialization error has occurred.

     ixgbe%d: Unable to allocate bus resource: interrupt  A fatal initialization error has occurred.

     ixgbe%d: watchdog timeout -- resetting  The device has stopped responding to the network, or there is a problem with the network connection
     (cable).

SUPPORT

     For general information and support, go to the Intel support website at: http://support.intel.com.

     If an issue is identified with the released source code on the supported kernel with a supported adapter, email the specific information
     related to the issue to <freebsd@intel.com>.

SEE ALSO

     altq(4), arp(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), polling(4), vlan(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

     The ixgbe device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0.

AUTHORS

     The ixgbe driver was written by Intel Corporation <freebsd@intel.com>.

BSD
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