Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Solaris NIC speed and duplex settings

In solaris 10, we have this very useful command to check the state of the NIC..


# dladm show-dev
bge0 link: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
bge1 link: unknown speed: 0 Mbps duplex: unknown
e1000g0 link: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
e1000g1 link: unknown speed: 0 Mbps duplex: half
e1000g2 link: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
e1000g3 link: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
bge2 link: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
bge3 link: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
e1000g4 link: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
e1000g5 link: unknown speed: 0 Mbps duplex: half

# dladm show-link
bge0 type: non-vlan mtu: 1500 device: bge0
bge1 type: non-vlan mtu: 1500 device: bge1
e1000g0 type: non-vlan mtu: 1500 device: e1000g0
e1000g1 type: non-vlan mtu: 1500 device: e1000g1
e1000g2 type: non-vlan mtu: 1500 device: e1000g2
e1000g3 type: non-vlan mtu: 1500 device: e1000g3
bge2 type: non-vlan mtu: 1500 device: bge2
bge3 type: non-vlan mtu: 1500 device: bge3
e1000g4 type: non-vlan mtu: 1500 device: e1000g4
e1000g5 type: non-vlan mtu: 1500 device: e1000g5


Here's a few good places to check out!!

http://www.brandonhutchinson.com/Solaris_NIC_speed_and_duplex_settings.html
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5084843

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