ID LAN cards

[Robert A Kirkpatrick]

Hi, I have just started supporting two rp7410 with service guard and lan consoles. I have been tasked with moving the machine to a new location and wondered. How can id lan cards to lan addresses? I.E Is there anyway I can light up a LAN card to id the cable it is connected to or the LAN address it is configured to. My machine has 7 cards

[Jeff Schussele · Accepted solution]

Hi Robert,

Use a combination of

lanscan
This gets you all the NICs including lanX ID & MACs & HW addresses

and

netstat -in

This will relate the lanX to the IP & only NICs with IPs will be in use. Then relate the HW address to the NIC to the IP.

HTH,
Jeff

[Robert A Kirkpatrick]

That is good news but how do ID the actual card on the back of the machine the hardware address?

[Jeff Schussele]

Cards starting from the far left looking at the back start with HW address 0/0..... towards the center. Starting from the far right towards center start with 1/0.... And go up from there as you approach the center. IF you have quad port cards then you'll see in the address 4,5,6 or 7 about six positions into the HW address & those correspond to ports 1,2,3 or 4 on the card itself.

HTH,
Jeff

[Alzhy]

"ioscan -kfnC lan" will show you your lan cards with its HW/Addresses.

lanadmin will show you which lan instance maps to which IP address.


"rad -q" will show you which PCI Slot tha HW address of each lan card maps..

HTH.

[Alzhy]

And robert I assume this boxen runs 11i? "rad -q" I think is only available on 11i systems...

[Jeff Schussele]

Yep - I neglected rad -q didn't I Nelson?

Robert that's the ticket for determining slot. In a rad -q output the last two digits in the first column denote chassis-slot & that is labeled on the back.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Jeff Schussele]

Almost has to be 11i - HP ONLY supports 11i on cell-based systems, Nelson.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Alzhy]

Oh right I forgot... rp7410 is a 2 Cell system and it runs "officially" only 11i. Nice solid boxen - Sun V880/480 Killer IMHO .. hope this does not get censored- ;^)

This boxen is what convinced me HP has got more to offer than Sun as it demonstrates HP's complete Partitioning Continuum -- hard partitions, to vPars to processor sets. One can have theorethically up to 4+ vPars on this box... in additionto 2 hard partitions - nPars.

[Robert A Kirkpatrick]

I am running 11 not 11i, so cannot use rad -q. What can I do instead?

[Jeff Schussele]

Robert,

Attached is a rad -q from one of my rp7410s.

HTH,
Jeff

[Alzhy]

There you go, just follow Jeff's rad -q output....

You might want upgrading to 11i.. you have here an "officially unupported" configuration..

[Robert A Kirkpatrick]

Sorry my machine is a N4000, really sorry guys just got toke over the server today

[Jeff Schussele]

OK - here's a rad -q from an N4000

Jeff

[Alzhy]

In that case here's rad -q on an N4000..

[Robert A Kirkpatrick]

rad -q does not work on 11 on a N4000?

[Alzhy]

I believe rad -q only works on 11i.

[Robert A Kirkpatrick]

Hi my machine is running under hpux 11