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Re: APA on diffrent type of lan cards

 
Sudheesh Varma VK
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APA on diffrent type of lan cards

Hi
We have purchased license for APA software with number recently from HP. We are planning to install and configure the APA this weekend. I am looking for a help to know whether my different kind of LAN cards will support APA. I have two types of LAN cards in my server on which we are going to implement APA. I would like to know whether APA will have any issue or difficulty in configuring APA between these lan cards. We are installing APA between LAN1 and LAN0 in which LAN1 is iether and other one is igelan.

I am unable to find any answer in APA Admin document about this. The doc only says devices whould have same operational characteristics.

Can any one please help me on this ?



Model and OS version : rp3410 HPUX 11.11


/tmp $ ioscan -funC lan

Class I H/W Path Driver S/W State H/W Type Description

===================================================================

lan 0 0/1/2/0 igelan CLAIMED INTERFACE HP PCI 1000Base-T Core

lan 1 0/4/1/0 iether CLAIMED INTERFACE HP A7012-60001 PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T Dual-port Adapter

lan 2 0/4/1/1 iether CLAIMED INTERFACE HP A7012-60001 PCI/PCI-X 1000Base-T Dual-port Adapter

/tmp $ lanscan

Hardware Station Crd Hdw Net-Interface NM MAC HP-DLPI DLPI

Path Address In# State NamePPA ID Type Support Mjr#

0/1/2/0 0x0016357350E5 0 UP lan0 snap0 1 ETHER Yes 119

0/4/1/0 0x00306E5DD0D8 1 UP lan1 snap1 2 ETHER Yes 119

0/4/1/1 0x00306E5DD0D9 2 UP lan2 snap2 3 ETHER Yes 119

4 REPLIES 4
likid0
Honored Contributor

Re: APA on diffrent type of lan cards

I have never encountered a problem with mixing ethernet cards,As long as they have the same speed, there is no problem.

What you can't have is a 100mb card with a gigabyte card
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vishnu.khandare
Respected Contributor

Re: APA on diffrent type of lan cards

Hi Sudheesh,
Most Important thing while going for APA config
both lan cards must have same speed or should be identical,

Please refer below procedure to configuration

decide which two lan interface you want to put in apa

both interface should be in same vlan.

verify link between to interface using command

# linkloop -i PrimaryPPANumber StationAddrOfSecondary

# vi /etc/rc.config.d/hp_apaportconf
HP_APAPORT_INTERFACE_NAME[0]=lan0
HP_APAPORT_CONFIG_MODE[0]=LAN_MONITOR

HP_APAPORT_INTERFACE_NAME[1]=lan1
HP_APAPORT_CONFIG_MODE[1]=LAN_MONITOR

vi /etc/rc.config.d/hp_apaconf
HP_APA_DEFAULT_PORT_MODE=LAN_MONITOR

# /sbin/init.d/hplm stop
# /sbin/init.d/hpapa stop
# /sbin/init.d/hpapa start
#lanqueryconf -s

more /etc/lanmon/lanconfig.ascii

verify lan interface entry is proper here

sbin/init.d/hplm start

lanscan -q

it shoudl show like

2
3
900 0 1

For verification you can also do using lanadmin command

lanadmin -r 0

then lanscan -q should show like

900 1

after few seconds it should come back as

900 1 0

Hope this solves ur query,
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Regards
Vishnu Khandare
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Chandrahasa s
Valued Contributor

Re: APA on diffrent type of lan cards

Hi,

If both interface speed is same then you can do APA.

Its not mandatory to have idenntical lan card.

Chandra
SoorajCleris
Honored Contributor

Re: APA on diffrent type of lan cards

Hi,

which mode are you going to configure?

Regards,
Sooraj
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