Sun Microsystems 806-2989-10, Installation And User Manual

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Page 9: ...ing the Adapter 5 Installing the Driver Software 5 Installing the Adapter Without Dynamic Reconfiguration 8 To Install the Adapter 8 To Verify the Installation 9 Setting the local mac address Property 12 Rebooting the System 13 Installing the Adapter With Dynamic Reconfiguration 14 To Install an Adapter in a Dynamic Reconfiguration System 14 3 Network Configuration 17 Configuring the Network Host ...

Page 10: ...Values and Definitions 26 Operational Mode Parameters 27 Flow Control Parameters 28 Gigabit Forced Mode Parameter 29 Interpacket Gap Parameters 29 Interrupt Parameters 31 Random Early Drop Parameters 31 PCI Bus Interface Parameters 32 Setting ce Driver Parameters 33 Setting Parameters Using the ndd Utility 33 To Specify Device Instances for the ndd Utility 34 Setting Parameters Using the ce conf F...

Page 11: ...Diagnostic Software 53 Using the OpenBoot PROM FCode Self Test 54 Running the Ethernet FCode Self Test Diagnostic 54 Troubleshooting Issues 56 Known Incompatibilities with Pre IEEE 802 3z Network Switches 56 To Set Autonegotiation to off for a SunSwitch or an Alteon ACE 110 Switch 56 To Set Autonegotiation to off for Other Noncompliant Network Equipment 57 Index 59 ...

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Page 13: ...thernet UTP Adapter 2 FIGURE 2 1 Cat 5 Twisted Pair Cable 9 FIGURE 5 1 Example of Servers Supporting Multiple VLANs with Tagging Adapters 46 FIGURE 5 2 Ethernet Tag Header Format 48 FIGURE A 1 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP Adapter Connector 51 ...

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Page 15: ...6 Read Write Interpacket Gap Parameter Values and Descriptions 30 TABLE 4 7 RX Blanking Register for Alias Read 31 TABLE 4 8 RX Random Early Detecting 8 Bit Vectors 31 TABLE 4 9 PCI Bus Interface Parameters 32 TABLE 4 10 Read Only ce Device Capabilities 39 TABLE 4 11 Read Only Link Partner Capabilities 40 TABLE 4 12 Transmit and Receive Parameters 41 TABLE A 1 Cat 5 Connector Link Characteristics ...

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Page 17: ... Chapter 2 describes how to install the adapter in your system and how to verify that it has been installed correctly Chapter 3 describes how to edit the network host files after the adapter has been installed on your system Chapter 4 describes how to configure the driver parameters used by the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter Chapter 5 explains VLANs in detail and provides configuration instruction...

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Page 21: ...wift Ethernet adapter hardware and software Hardware Overview The adapter relieves congestion experienced at the backbone and server levels by today s networks while providing a future upgrade path for high end workstations that require more bandwidth than fast Ethernet can provide ...

Page 22: ...ebruary 2001 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP Adapter The Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP adapter is a single port gigabit Ethernet copper based PCI Bus card It can be configured to operate in 10 100 or 1000 Mbps Ethernet networks FIGURE 1 1 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP Adapter ...

Page 23: ... the following standards and protocols SNMP limited MIB Full and half duplex gigabit Ethernet interface Low CPU utilization Frees up server system resource and bandwidth Dynamic reconfiguration DR and redundancy failover support Full flow control support Duplex SC fiber connector 850 nm SX 33 66 MHz 32 or 64 bit bus master Universal dual voltage signaling 3 3V and 5V PCI Local Bus Rev 2 2 complian...

Page 24: ...Adapter Installation and User s Guide February 2001 IEEE 802 1P 802 1D Priority Tagging Quality Of Service RAS support Energy Star support Diagnostic Support User executable self test using OpenBoot PROM SunVTS diagnostic tool ...

Page 25: ...r With Dynamic Reconfiguration on page 14 Note If you have a Sun Enterprise system that supports dynamic reconfiguration DR refer to the Sun Enterprise Dynamic Reconfiguration User s Guide and your system s documentation for further information about dynamic reconfiguration Installing the Driver Software The Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Driver 1 0 CD contains the driver software required to operate the ...

Page 26: ...packages when you install the GigaSwift Ethernet software packages mkdir cdrom mkdir cdrom cdrom0 mount F hsfs o ro dev dsk c0t6d0s2 cdrom cdrom0 TABLE 2 1 Files and Directories on the CD ROM File or Directory Contents Copyright U S copyright file FR_Copyright French copyright file Docs Contains PDF copy of the user manual GigaSwiftEthernet Solaris_OS VER Packages Contains the Sun GigaSwift Ethern...

Page 27: ...SwiftEthernet Solaris_8 Packages The following packages are available 1 SUNWcea Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Driver 32 bit adb Macros sparc 1 0 REV 2000 12 11 2 SUNWceax Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Driver 64 bit adb Macros sparc 1 0 REV 2000 12 11 3 SUNWced Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter 32 bit Driver sparc 1 0 REV 2000 12 11 4 SUNWcedu Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Driver Headers sparc 1 0 ...

Page 28: ...system 3 Open the system unit 4 Attach the adhesive copper strip of the antistatic wrist strap to the metal casing of the power supply Wrap the other end twice around your wrist with the adhesive side against your skin 5 Holding the PCI adapter by the edges unpack it and place it on an antistatic surface 6 Using a No 1 Phillips screwdriver remove the PCI filler panel from the slot in which you wan...

Page 29: ...einstall it again 9 Secure the adapter to the PCI slot using the screw you removed in Step 6 10 Detach the wrist strap and close the system unit 11 Connect the cables For the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP PCI Bus card connect a Cat 5 twisted pair cable FIGURE 2 1 Cat 5 Twisted Pair Cable To Verify the Installation After you have installed the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter but before you boot your sy...

Page 30: ...rk 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 Ultra 30 system example below In this example the network 4 device is the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter and the network 1 1 is the onboard Ethernet device Note If you do not see the device listed check that the adapter is properly seated and if nec...

Page 31: ...e 12 for more information ok properties assigned addresses 82810010 00000000 00200000 00000000 00200000 82810030 00000000 00400000 00000000 00100000 local mac address 08 00 20 e5 bf cf phy type mif max frame size 00 00 40 00 address bits 00 00 00 30 compatible 70 63 69 31 30 38 65 2c 61 62 62 61 00 70 63 69 board model 501 5902 model SUNW pci ce device_type network reg 00810000 00000000 00000000 0...

Page 32: ...twork interfaces on the system The device driver or any other adapter utility can use the network device s MAC address local mac address while configuring it In the Solaris operating environment you can use the MAC address when booting over the network The mac address property of the network device specifies the network address system wide or local mac address used for booting the system To start ...

Page 33: ...pe 3 Set the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet device to be your default boot device type Rebooting the System After verifying the adapter installation use the boot r command to perform a reconfiguration boot on your system ok cd pci 1f 2000 pci 1 network 4 setenv boot device pci 1f 2000 pci 1 network 4 ok boot r ...

Page 34: ...ding and configuring an adapter with DR involves 1 connecting the attachment point and 2 configuring its occupant In most cases the cfgadm 1M command can perform both steps at once To Install an Adapter in a Dynamic Reconfiguration System 1 Verify that the selected board slot is ready for the adapter The states and conditions should be Or cfgadm Receptacle state Empty Occupant state Unconfigured C...

Page 35: ...ditions should become Any other states or conditions should be considered an error 4 Connect any peripheral cables and interface modules to the adapter 5 Connect the cables to the card and to an Ethernet network 6 Configure the adapter with the following command This command should both connect and configure the receptacle Verify with the cfgadm command The states and conditions for a connected an...

Page 36: ...ut not the usable devices which reside on the adapter Temperature is monitored and power and cooling affect the attachment point condition b Configure the adapter and slot The states and conditions for a configured attachment point should be Now the system is also aware of the usable devices which reside on the adapter and all devices may be mounted or configured to be used 7 Reconfigure the devic...

Page 37: ...g the Network Host Files After installing the driver software you must create a hostname cenumber file for the adapter s Ethernet interface You must also create both an IP address and a host name for its Ethernet interface in the etc hosts file 1 At the command line use the grep command to search the etc path_to_inst file for ce interfaces In the example above the device instance is from a Sun Gig...

Page 38: ...here 0 is the number of the ce interface If the instance number were 1 the filename would be etc hostname ce1 Do not create an etc hostname cenumber file for a Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter interface you plan to leave unused The etc hostname cenumber file must contain the hostname for the appropriate ce interface The host name should have an IP address and should be listed in the etc hosts file T...

Page 39: ...e GigaSwift Ethernet software packages into the root directory of the diskless client You can find the GigaSwift Ethernet software packages on the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Driver 1 0 CD Refer to the Solaris Advanced Installation Guide and the System Administration Guide for more information about installing and administering diskless client systems Note The Solaris 8 operating environment does not s...

Page 40: ...t software packages to the diskless client s root directory on the server You will need to install the SUNWced SUNWcedm and SUNWcedu software packages to the client s root directory 4 Eject the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Driver 1 0 CD from the CD ROM drive 5 Create a hostname cenumber file in the diskless client s root directory You will need to create an export root client_name etc hostname cenumber ...

Page 41: ...aSwift Ethernet software packages to the install server These software packages are on Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Driver 1 0 CD Note You cannot install Solaris over VLAN configurations The switch port to which GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter is connected must be in normal LAN mode To Install the Solaris Environment Over a GigaSwift Ethernet Network 1 Prepare the install server and client system to install ...

Page 42: ...is directory refer to Installing the Driver Software on page 5 for mounting instructions 4 On the install server install the GigaSwift Ethernet software to the client s root directory as determined in Step 2 Replace root_directory with the location of the client s root directory Note The directory paths for these files might change in future Solaris releases If the commands above do not work corre...

Page 43: ...ample the network 4 device is the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter 8 At the ok prompt boot the client system using the full device path of the Gigabit Ethernet device For example 9 Proceed with the Solaris operating environment installation Refer to the Solaris Advanced Installation Guide for more information about installing the Solaris operating environment over the network shutdown i0 g0 y shutdo...

Page 44: ...e installed on the client system If the software is installed as shown in the example above skip to Step 11 If the software is not installed install the software from Solaris Supplement CD Refer to Installing the Driver Software on page 5 for instructions on installing the required software packages 11 Confirm that the network host files have been configured correctly during the Solaris installati...

Page 45: ...GigaSwift Ethernet adapter 108e is the vendor ID and abba is the PCI device ID You can manually configure the ce device driver parameters to customize each Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter device in your system This section provides an overview of the capabilities of the GigaSwift Ethernet device used in the adapter lists the available ce device driver parameters and describes how to configure these...

Page 46: ... parameter adv_pause_cap Read and write Flow control parameter link_master Read and write 1Gb forced mode parameter use_int_xcvr Read and write enable_ipg0 Read and write Enable additional delay before transmitting a packet ipg0 Read and write Additional delay before transmitting a packet ipg1 Read and write Interpacket Gap parameter ipg2 Read and write Interpacket Gap parameter rx_intr_pkts Read ...

Page 47: ...ardware 0 Not 1000 Mbit sec full duplex capable 1 1000 Mbit sec full duplex capable default adv_1000hdx_cap Local interface capability advertised by the hardware 0 Not 1000 Mbit sec half duplex capable 1 1000 Mbit sec half duplex capable default adv_100fdx_cap Local interface capability advertised by the hardware 0 Not 100 Mbit sec full duplex capable 1 100 Mbit sec full duplex capable default adv...

Page 48: ...driver advertises both transmit and receive pause capability during autonegotiation TABLE 4 3 provides flow control keywords and describes their function TABLE 4 3 Read Write Flow Control Keyword Descriptions Keyword Description adv_asmpause_cap The adapter supports asymmetric pause which means it can pause only in one direction 0 Off default 1 On adv_pause_cap This parameter has two meanings depe...

Page 49: ... with enable_ipg0 set the default it adds an additional time delay before transmitting the packet This delay set by the ipg0 parameter is in addition to the delay set by the ipg1 and ipg2 parameters The additional ipg0 delay helps to reduce collisions If enable_ipg0 is disabled the value of ipg0 is ignored and no additional delay is set Only the delays set by ipg1 and ipg2 will be used Disable ena...

Page 50: ... takes to transmit one byte on the link with a link speed of 1000 Mbps If your network has systems that use longer IPG the sum of ipg1 and ipg2 and if those machines seem to be slow in accessing the network increase the values of ipg1 and ipg2 to match the longer IPGs of other machines TABLE 4 5 Parameters Defining enable_ipg0 and ipg0 Parameter Values Description enable_ipg0 0 1 enable_ipg0 reset...

Page 51: ...ad Field Name Values Description rx_intr_pkts 0 to 511 Interrupt after this number of packets have arrived since the last packet was serviced A value of zero indicates no packet blanking Default 3 rx_intr_time 0 to 524287 Interrupt after 4 5 US ticks have elapsed since the last packet was serviced A value of zero indicates no time blanking Default 1250 TABLE 4 8 RX Random Early Detecting 8 Bit Vec...

Page 52: ... if bit 16 is set the first packet out of every eight will be dropped in this region Default 0 red_dv10to12k 0 to 255 Random early detection and packet drop vectors for when fifo threshold is greater than 10 240 bytes and less than 12 288 bytes Probability of drop can be programmed on a 12 5 percent granularity For example if bit 24 is set the first packet out of every eight will be dropped in thi...

Page 53: ...working driver which implements the Data Link Provider Interface DLPI The following sections describe how you can use the ce driver and the ndd utility to modify with the set option or display without the set option the parameters for each ce device rx_dma_weight Determine the multiplication factor for granting credit to the RX side during a weighted round robin arbitration Values are 0 to 3 Defau...

Page 54: ...r to select the device The device remains selected until you change the selection Noninteractive and Interactive Modes You can use the ndd utility in two modes Noninteractive Interactive In noninteractive mode you invoke the utility to execute a specific command Once the command is executed you exit the utility In interactive mode you can use the utility to get or set more than one parameter value...

Page 55: ...et option a query operation is assumed and the utility queries the named driver instance retrieves the value associated with the specified parameter and prints it Using the ndd Utility in Interactive Mode To modify a parameter value in interactive mode specify ndd dev ce as shown below The ndd utility then prompts you for the name of the parameter After typing the parameter name the ndd utility pr...

Page 56: ...te adv_1000fdx_cap read and write adv_1000hdx_cap read and write adv_100T4_cap read and write adv_100fdx_cap read and write adv_100hdx_cap read and write adv_10fdx_cap read and write adv_10hdx_cap read and write adv_asmpause_cap read and write adv_pause_cap read and write link_master read and write use_int_xcvr read and write enable_ipg0 read and write ipg0 read and write ipg1 read and write ipg2 ...

Page 57: ... of these parameters 2 Set the adv_autoneg_cap parameter to 0 When you change any ndd link parameter a message similar to the following appears Setting Parameters Using the ce conf File You can also specify the driver parameter properties on a per device basis by creating a ce conf file in the kernel drv directory Use a ce conf file when you need to set a particular parameter for a device in the s...

Page 58: ...e parent name The comma separated numbers after the character at the end represent the device and function numbers which are together referred to as unit address To identify a PCI device unambiguously in the ce conf file use the name parent name and the unit address for the device Refer to the pci 4 man page for more information about the PCI device specification In the first line of the previous ...

Page 59: ...by the netstat k command TABLE 4 10 describes the read only Media Independent Interface MII capabilities These parameters define the capabilities of the hardware The Gigabit Media Independent Interface GMII supports all of the following capabilities adv_autoneg_cap 0 adv_1000fdx_cap 0 name pci108e abba parent pci 4 4000 unit address 4 adv_autoneg_cap 0 adv_1000fdx_cap 0 TABLE 4 10 Read Only ce Dev...

Page 60: ...use Local interface flow control capability 0 Not asymmetric pause capable 1 Asymmetric pause from the local device capable cap_pause Local interface flow control capability 0 Not Symmetric pause capable 1 Symmetric pause capable TABLE 4 11 Read Only Link Partner Capabilities Parameter Description lp_cap_autoneg 0 No autonegotiation 1 Autonegotiation lp_cap_1000fdx 0 No 1000 Mbit sec full duplex t...

Page 61: ...r re initializations every time you change link parameters using NDD this increments rev_id Revision ID of the GigaSwift Ethernet device useful for recognition of device being used in the field xcvr_addr GMII MII Physical layer device address for management interface xcvr_id GMII MII Physical layer device Identification Decimal copy of MII registers 2 and 3 lb_mode Copy of the Loopback mode the de...

Page 62: ...receive buffer space rx_new_pages Number of pages that got replaced during reception rx_new_hdr_pgs Number of pages that were filled with packets less than 256 bytes that got replaced during reception rx_new_mtu_pgs Number of pages that were filled with packets greater than 256 bytes and less than 1514 that got replaced during reception rx_new_nxt_pgs Number of pages that contained packets that we...

Page 63: ...000fdx 0 lp_cap_1000hdx 0 lp_cap_100T4 0 lp_cap_100fdx 0 lp_cap_100hdx 0 lp_cap_10fdx 0 lp_cap_10hdx 0 lp_cap_asmpause 0 lp_cap_pause 0 link_T4 0 link_speed 0 link_duplex 0 link_asmpause 0 link_pause 0 link_up 0 lb_mode 0 qos_mode 0 tx_inits 0 tx_starts 0 tx_nocanput 0 tx_msgdup_fail 0 tx_allocb_fail 0 tx_no_desc 0 tx_dma_bind_fail 0 tx_uflo 0 tx_queue0 0 tx_queue1 0 tx_queue2 0 tx_queue3 0 tx_max...

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Page 65: ...nly If your network does not require multiple VLANs you can use the default configuration in which case no further configuration is necessary Note If you did not install the VLAN packages when you installed the driver you must unconfiguration all ce networking interfaces and unload the driver before you can configure VLAN An Overview of VLANs VLANs allow you to split your physical LAN into logical...

Page 66: ...onsists of a switch two servers and five clients The LAN is logically organized into three different VLANs each representing a different IP subnet VLAN 1 is an IP subnet consisting of the Main Server Client 3 and Client 5 This represents an engineering group VLAN 2 includes the Main Server Clients 1 and 2 via shared media segment and Client 5 This is a software development group VLAN 3 includes th...

Page 67: ... VLAN 3 and can communicate only with the servers Tagging is not enabled on Client 4 s switch port Client 5 is a member of both VLANs 1 and 2 and has a Sun GigabitEthernet adapter installed It is connected to switch port 10 Both the adapter and the switch port are configured for VLANs 1 and 2 and have tagging enabled VLAN tagging is only required to be enabled on switch ports that create trunk lin...

Page 68: ...figured for each adapter on the server using the following naming format that includes both the VID and the physical point of attachment PPA VLAN logical PPA 1000 VID Device PPA ce123000 1000 123 ce This format limits the maximum number of PPAs instances you can configure to 1000 in the etc path_to_inst file For example on a server with the Sun GigabitEthernet P 3 0 adapter having an instance of 0...

Page 69: ...AN tagging and ports ifconfig ce123000 plumb up ifconfig ce224000 plumb up ifconfig a lo0 flags 1000849 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MULTICAST IPv4 mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127 0 0 1 netmask ff000000 hme0 flags 1000843 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST IPv4 mtu 1500 index 2 inet 129 144 131 91 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 129 144 131 255 ether 8 0 20 a4 4f b8 ce123000 flags 1000843 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST I...

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Page 71: ... Physical Characteristics on page 52 Power Requirements on page 52 Connectors FIGURE A 1 shows the connector for the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP adapter FIGURE A 1 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP Adapter Connector Table A 2 lists the characteristics of the Cat 5 Connector used by the Sun GigaSwift Ethernet UTP adapter TABLE A 1 Cat 5 Connector Link Characteristics Description Operating range Up 100 mete...

Page 72: ...ature Specification PCI clock 33 66 MHz max PCI data burst transfer rate up to 64 byte bursts PCI data address width 32 64 bit PCI modes Master slave 1 GBit s 850 nm 1000 Mbps full duplex TABLE A 3 Physical Characteristics Dimension Measurement Length 6 8 inches Width 4 2 inches TABLE A 4 Power Requirements Specification Measurement Maximum power consumption 14 watts Voltage 3 3V and 5V ...

Page 73: ... user interface and is used to verify the configuration and functionality of most hardware controllers and devices The SunVTS software operates primarily from a graphical user interface enabling test parameters to be set quickly and easily while a diagnostic test operation is being performed The nettest diagnostic checks all the networking interfaces on a system including the Sun GigaSwift Etherne...

Page 74: ...sub section by sub section and ensures the following Connectivity during adapter card installation Verification that all components required for a system boot are functional Running the Ethernet FCode Self Test Diagnostic To run the Ethernet diagnostics you must first bring the system to a stop at the OpenBoot prompt after issuing a reset If you do not reset the system the diagnostic tests might c...

Page 75: ... the test passes you see these messages If the card is not connected to a network you see the following messages 6 For more robust test results set the diag switch to true and reissue the tests as shown in Step 5 above ok show nets a pci 1f 0 pci 1 network 4 b pci 1f 0 pci 1 1 network 1 1 q NO SELECTION Enter Selection q to quit ok test device path ok test pci 1f 0 pci 1 network 4 ce register test...

Page 76: ... with the SunSwitch switch the Alteon ACE 110 switch or other pre or non IEEE 802 3z standard compliant network equipment If you experience difficulties with noncompliant equipment set the adapter and switch autonegotiation properties to off and try to configure the interface manually To Set Autonegotiation to off for a SunSwitch or an Alteon ACE 110 Switch You can set autonegotiation to off for S...

Page 77: ...e Ethernet port used by the adapter 4 Type the following to apply and save your changes Refer to the switch documentation for further configuration instructions To Set Autonegotiation to off for Other Noncompliant Network Equipment If your network equipment does not support autonegotiation you can set autonegotiation to off on the GigaSwift Ethernet ce device Main cfg Configuration Menu sys System...

Page 78: ... Ethernet driver parameters to values according to the documentation that shipped with your switch adv_1000fdx_cap adv_1000hdx_cap adv_pauseTX adv_pauseRX 2 Set the adv_autoneg_cap parameter to 0 Note See Chapter 4 for the default values of these parameters and for instructions on how to set these parameters ...

Page 79: ...47 D device properties 11 diagnostic support 4 diskless clients 19 Dynamic Reconfiguration 8 dynamic reconfiguration 5 Dynamic Reconfiguration DR 14 E editing the network host files 17 F FCode selftest diagnostics 54 files and directories on the CD ROM 6 flow control keywords 28 H hardware and software requirements 3 I ifconfig a 49 ifconfig command 18 installing driver software 5 installing the a...

Page 80: ...nfiguration 12 O operational mode parameters 27 P parameter values how to modify and display 34 parameters and settings 26 R random early detection register 31 receive interrupt blanking values 26 31 S setting ce driver parameters using ndd using ce conf 33 standard Ethernet frame sizes 3 standards and protocols 3 SunVTS diagnostic application 53 V verify the installation 9 virtual device 49 VLAN ...