Configure Net Card

[Orlando De Oliveira R]

I possess several types of teams Hp9000 (R380, D370, D390)

As I can know if my net card supports speed of 100 Mbps?.
In case my net card supports 100 Mbps of speed like I can make to configure it?.

[Sridhar Bhaskarla]

How can you know if your net card support 100MBPS?.

Use the command lanadmin -x ppa. You can get the ppa number from lanscan command. On 11.0 the index associated with the lan card is the ppa (ex, 2 for lan2).

If it gives out the error that "this option is not supported for this card" then it does not.

Otherwise, you can use the command lanadmin -X to set the speed.

lanadmin -X 100FD 2

Make sure the switch is set to 100FD AUTO NEGOTIATION OFF.

To make it permanent, edit the corresponding file /etc/rc.config.d/hp*conf. (for ex., for gsc cards, hpgsc100conf) You can see the syntax of the entries in the file.

-Sri

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi:

See here (including the embedded links):

http://techsolutions.hp.com/fe/tips.html

For product information, you can use this:

http://partsurfer.hp.com/cgi-bin/spi/main

Regards!

...JRF...

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Orlando


man landamin is the best way to do it .


lanscan will give you the ppa no or the network module id no.

landmin -x ppa no will give the current settings of speed


lanadmin -S 100FD ppa no. will change it to 100 Full Duplex etc .


Manoj Srivastava

[RAC_1]

lanadmin -x ppa_no gives you the current setting for a network card.

ppa_no can be get with lanscan command.

lanadmin -X 100FD ppa_no sets the speed to 100 MB full duplex.

Check if the same setting exists on switch also.

Man lanadmin, lanscan.

Regards,

[sven verhaegen]

most of the remarks are usefull however they are manual interventions and are not lasting under boot time , this means a lanadmin -x applies to the running system , if you want the changes to be permanent , being implemented at every reboot you should also addapt the appropriate configuration file , each hp-ux system with recent OS has a directory called :

/etc/rc.config.d

in this directory you shouuld find several files starting with hp and ending on conf e.g. hp100btconf , each cardtype you install the sioftware for wiull generate another file , if you have a 100bt card such file like this 9name may vary a little) in this file you can put among other things , the lan driver name , possibly change thje mac address is you need to but more importent , there is a option field for SPEED and there you can define 100HD , 100FD , 10HD or 10FD to force the card to a certain speed or duplex mode at startup , for 100 full duplex used 100FD and indeed make sure the switch has the appropriate settings

this is important beacause connecting full-duplex to a half-duplex devices causes uni-directional performance issues ...