Changing NIC speed to 1000 Full-Duplex on APA

[f. halili]

Hello,

I have a machine currently running APA. We plan to make network switch to be 1000-FULL. How can I force my NICS on an APA setup to be 1000-FULL. Do I just turnoff Autonegotion. IF that is the case how do I do that? Can that be turned off on a live machine? Will things get disconnected? I don't want to learn what happens the hard way.


# lanadmin -x -v 900
Link Aggregate PPA # : 900
Number of Ports : 2
Ports PPA : 0 6
Link Aggregation State : LINKAGG MANUAL
Group Capability : 3
Load Balance Mode : MAC Address based (LB_MAC)



BELOW ARE THE SPEEDS OF BOTH NICS.

Speed = 1000000000
Speed = 1000 Full-Duplex.
Autonegotiation = On.

Speed = 1000000000
Speed = 1000 Full-Duplex.
Autonegotiation = On.


thanks,
f. halili

[Tim Nelson · Accepted solution]

1000MB Ethercards need to be set to auto.

The switch ports must also be set to auto.

It was only the 100MB cards that had issue with auto and needed to be hard set.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

You cannot hard-set 1000MB/s; that must be a negotiated setting which means that BOTH ends of the connect (the NIC and its corresponding ethernet switch port) MUST be set to auto-negotiate.

[f. halili]

THANKS!