topic Re: strange anomaly in Operating System - HP-UX

strange anomaly

Michal Zochowski_1 — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:16:26 GMT

Hi,

Issue regarding output command "lanadmin -x 1"/. When I put this command from my profile system shows me 100 Half-Duplex mode my lancard, but when I put this command from root
I have output: 100 Full-Duplex.
What's going on ????
Does anybody know that problem ?

thanx&regards
Michal

Re: strange anomaly

Stefan Farrelly — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:23:14 GMT

I cant get this to work at all from a non-root account - lanadmin reports ;
ERROR: Could not process request.

If I run it as root it works fine;
Speed = 1000 Full-Duplex.
Autonegotiation = On.

There seems to be something requiring root privelege to get this to work properly.

An alternate is to use the lanadmin command (menu based command), then go to lan, then display, to get the lancard settings, this works properly from a non root account and you can script it.

Re: strange anomaly

Michal Zochowski_1 — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 09:30:23 GMT

quite well solution.
Menu in lanadmin shows only 10 or 100 mode,
but doesn't show mode of duplex.
This information is important for me.

thanx for quick response.

Michal

Re: strange anomaly

Mel Burslan — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 10:31:09 GMT

As far as I know, lanadmin command is a root only acesible command unless the suid bit is set. Running it from a non uid-0 account results in the unpredictable output. If running it is critical to your job function, I would double check with the hp support. Otherwise I would suggest to run it as root.

Last but not the least, if what you are after is to nail down the sucker to 100FDsetting no matter what, I would modify the necessary lan driver config file in /etc/rc.config.d directory to make it permanent.

Re: strange anomaly

Johan Lorimier — Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:34:46 GMT

Hi,

lanadmin must be used by root only.
The lanadmin -x will give you the speed and the duplex of your interface.
In the lanadmin command menu, the duplex is shown in the plain name of the interface.

Johan