Network Interfaces

UNIX Solaris
1

I got second IOU in my M5000 but not able bring internal network interfcae .. ike i don't get link on those 2 interfaces .. and the same network cable plugged in PCI network card it works like a charm Is there any special way to enable the internal IOU interfaces or i have bad nics ?

2

I assume you have added the IUO to the domain?

does the nic show in a prtdiag?

3

yep it shows up in prtdiag and dladm also shows them

bash-3.00# prtdiag | grep network
 01    network        N/A
 01    network        N/A
 01    network        SUNW,pcie-no
 01    network        SUNW,pcie-no
 01    network        SUNW,pcie-no
 01    network        SUNW,pcie-no
bash-3.00# dladm show-dev
bge0            link: down      speed: 0     Mbps       duplex: unknown
bge1            link: down      speed: 0     Mbps       duplex: unknown
e1000g0         link: down      speed: 0     Mbps       duplex: half
e1000g1         link: up        speed: 1000  Mbps       duplex: full
e1000g2         link: down      speed: 0     Mbps       duplex: half
e1000g3         link: down      speed: 0     Mbps       duplex: half
bash-3.00#
4

good start....

can you give output of:

ls -al /etc/hostname*

/usr/sbin/ifconfg -a
5

Just to tell u .. when i try to do watch net all from ok prompt it give o/p on 1 interface rest it shows down .. and i 've not set up the all the interfaces just did plumb to them to check if plumbing will show any activity on the NIC cards but didn't help

6

which interface do you expect to be up?
what commands have you used to do the plumb?

7

I 'm asking is there anything specific we need to do in M5000 internal network interfaces .. and i just plumbed them with ifconfig bge0 plumb and the interfaces which i 'm expecting to up is bge0

8

yep, that should work.

if you can see bge0 in the prtdiag...
and then you do a plumb...
should work, assuming i remember rightly..

9

If the interfaces link are down, there is no much hope to see any activity on them. Plumbing them isn't going to change that fact as long as they aren't connected to anything which looks like being the case according to prtdiag output.