hpietherconf file and lan speed

[PamelaJThrasher]

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On my new HP-UX 11.31 superdome, some of my interfaces are not staying at 100fd autoneg off after a reboot. I have iether lan cards and have read that I need to modify /etc/rc.config.d/hpietherconf to make these setting persist after a reboot. The interfaces that I need this done on are lan3, lan4 and lan5. Here is what my /etc/rc.config.d/hpietherconf looks like right now:

HP_IETHER_INTERFACE_NAME[0]=lan3
HP_IETHER_STATION_ADDRESS[0]=
HP_IETHER_SPEED[0]=100fd
HP_IETHER_MTU[0]=
HP_IETHER_FLOW_CONTROL[0]=
HP_IETHER_AUTONEG[0]=0
HP_IETHER_SEND_COAL_TICKS[0]=
HP_IETHER_RECV_COAL_TICKS[0]=
HP_IETHER_SEND_MAX_BUFS[0]=
HP_IETHER_RECV_MAX_BUFS[0]=
HP_IETHER_VMTU[0]=
HP_IETHER_ITR_MODE[0]=
HP_IETHER_SEND_CKO[0]=
HP_IETHER_RECV_CKO[0]=
HP_IETHER_DIAG_THRESH[0]=

HP_IETHER_INTERFACE_NAME[1]=lan4
HP_IETHER_STATION_ADDRESS[1]=
HP_IETHER_SPEED[1]=100fd
HP_IETHER_MTU[1]=
HP_IETHER_FLOW_CONTROL[1]=
HP_IETHER_AUTONEG[1]=0
HP_IETHER_SEND_COAL_TICKS[1]=
HP_IETHER_RECV_COAL_TICKS[1]=
HP_IETHER_SEND_MAX_BUFS[1]=
HP_IETHER_RECV_MAX_BUFS[1]=
HP_IETHER_VMTU[1]=
HP_IETHER_ITR_MODE[1]=
HP_IETHER_SEND_CKO[1]=
HP_IETHER_RECV_CKO[1]=
HP_IETHER_DIAG_THRESH[1]=

HP_IETHER_INTERFACE_NAME[2]=lan5
HP_IETHER_STATION_ADDRESS[2]=
HP_IETHER_SPEED[2]=100fd
HP_IETHER_MTU[2]=
HP_IETHER_FLOW_CONTROL[2]=
HP_IETHER_AUTONEG[2]=0
HP_IETHER_SEND_COAL_TICKS[2]=
HP_IETHER_RECV_COAL_TICKS[2]=
HP_IETHER_SEND_MAX_BUFS[2]=
HP_IETHER_RECV_MAX_BUFS[2]=
HP_IETHER_VMTU[2]=
HP_IETHER_ITR_MODE[2]=
HP_IETHER_SEND_CKO[2]=
HP_IETHER_RECV_CKO[2]=
HP_IETHER_DIAG_THRESH[2]=

# End of hpietherconf configuration file


Does this look right?

Thanks in advance for your help

Pam

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Pam,

It looks right - except that the "fd" should be capitalized: "FD". At least I'm reasonable certain it should be.


Pete

[Pete Randall]

reasonably certain, that is.

[PamelaJThrasher]

Thanks! When I looked at the example at the top of the hpietherconf file it showed the possible values for HP_IETHER_SPEED[0]= as follows:

# HP_IETHER_SPEED Change the speed/duplexity for 100Base-T or
# 1000Base-T cards.
# Valid values are: 10hd 10fd 100hd 100fd auto_on


so I think it may be lowercase.

[Pete Randall]

Yes, I noticed that as well (after I made the suggestion, of course), but most all the other *conf files seem to have it capitalized. It might be worth a try.


Pete