bandwidth of a lan card

[ballans]

Hello,
on a HP Visualize Workstations 785/B1000 with HP-UX 10.20 and an ethernet card 10/100Mb/s, how can I know the effective bandwidth of the lan card ?
Can I force the card to work in 100 Mb/s via the HP-UX system ?
(in fact, the workstation is directly connected to a high speed switch but it seems to work in 10 Mb/s...).
How can I verify this ?
Thanks in advance for your answer.
PS : the switch links are configured for auto negociation...

[Ross Zubritski]

Using SAM, verify that the card is set to 100/FULL.
1. sam

2. Networking and Communications

3. Network Interface cards

Regards,

RZ

[Victor BERRIDGE]

lanadmin -x 0
Current Config = 100 Full-Duplex MANUAL

The easiest would be to use sam


All the best
Victor

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi ballans,

If you know the NMID of the card, then you can run:

lanadmin -x X

where X=NMID. Unfortunately in 10.2 the NMID does *not* necessarily match the PPA. SO lan1 could be NMID 2.
In 11.x the PPA is only used & you know that lan0 is PPA 0.
To determine NMID bring up lanadmin in menu mode

lanadmin

The step through the cards & it will display the NMID. Then you can display the card setting.
If you post the model of the NIC we could tell you whether it indeed supports 100 MHZ. A lot of older cards don't.

HTH,
Jeff

[Bill Douglass]

lanadmin -s will show you the speed your card is set to.




$ lanadmin -s 0

Speed = 100000000

Going into menu mode (lanadmin with no arguments), then selecting "lan" and "display" will show you a wealth of statistics about the default interface.

[Zeev Schultz]

Like it was mentioned,-X/-x switches aren't
supported on the old models.
In that case (except for sam/lanadmin) -
go to /etc/rc.config.d.Edit hpbase100conf (pci build in 10/100),set the speed to 100fd or auto_on for autosensing.I think it should be done anyway to preserve settings after reboot.

Zeev

[Dario_1]

Hi!!

Check this post:

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0xc5b03a1c04ffd61190050090279cd0f9,00.html

Regards,

DR