using 1000mb rather than 100mb nic

[Mark A. Carlson]

We have recently installed several n4000's with two nic's each - 100mb and 1000mb. Would like to have high volume traffic use 1000mb connections between the servers. How can I configure to make sure outbound traffic uses 1000mb and not slower 100mb nic?

[Elena Leontieva · Accepted solution]

You need to configure two nic's on one server on different subnets. The partner nic on another server you want to communicate with, say 1000Mb nic, needs to be on the same subnet.

HTH,
Elena.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

If you want to use 1G NIC on all server make sure that the networking switch port is also configured for 1G.

You can configure the each nic with sam for desired speed. It's better to set aut-neg off on server and also on switch port.

Also look at the files /etc/rc.config.d/hp* file for speed settings

lanadmin command can be used to set speed and check speed..

-USA..

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

Make the 1G nic your primary server ip address and the gateway. All your outbound traffic goes through the default gateway which is normally in the same subnet as the primary ip address of the system.

check and edit /etc/rc.config.d/netconf file if necessary.

Hope this helps.

Regds