hpigelan port settings

[Leslie Fischer]

Hi,

I have a new rp3440 with one igelan lan port. I want to run the lan card with the highest network speed possible. When the network port was set to 1000T, I could not get connected. Had the network people change it 100FD, no-auto, but found that was not the problem. Problem was a cable.

I would like to use the gig speed, so I tried changing it. Found there is no such thing as "lanadmin -X 1000FD 0".

I had the network people reset the card back to 1000, auto-on, and when I set the port with
"lanadmin -X auto-on 0", it worked, I got the results using "lanadmin -x 0",
as Speed = 1000 Full-Duplex. Autonegotiation = On.

I rebooted the server and it came up as the same (1000 Full Duplex), but have had a history of problems with the hpiether cards sometimes coming up on half dulplex.

Should I hard code the hpigelan.conf file? Are these lan cards more stable than the hpiether lan cards?

If I need to, how would I set the variables in the hpigelan.conf file to make sure that it comes up with the same speed after reboot?

HP_IGELAN_INTERFACE_NAME[0]=
HP_IGELAN_STATION_ADDRESS[0]=
HP_IGELAN_SPEED[0]=
HP_IGELAN_MTU[0]=
HP_IGELAN_FLOW_CONTROL[0]=
HP_IGELAN_AUTONEG[0]=
HP_IGELAN_SEND_COAL_TICKS[0]=
HP_IGELAN_RECV_COAL_TICKS[0]=
HP_IGELAN_SEND_MAX_BUFS[0]=
HP_IGELAN_RECV_MAX_BUFS[0]=
HP_IGELAN_SEND_CKO[0]=
HP_IGELAN_RECV_CKO[0]=
HP_IGELAN_DIAG_THRESH[0]=

This could be a case of " if it ain't broke, don't fix it" and that would be OK too.

Any input from your experience would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Leslie

[Patrick Wallek]

On gigabit speed cards you **MUST** set the card to AUTONEG in order to get 1000 Mb speed.

Nothing else will work.

I have had problems on 10/100 cards coming up 100HD when set to AUTONEG. However, I have never had a problem with a Gigabit card coming up correctly, 1000 FD, when set to AUTONEG.

[Rita C Workman]

Hi Leslie,

To respond to your question "Should I hard code the hpigelan.conf file?

YES....you should always hard code any network settings if you want to keep them after a reboot.

Rgrds,
Rita

[Pete Randall · Accepted solution]

Hard code it to AUTO, that is.


Pete

[Leslie Fischer]

Thank you for your responses.