Sun Microsystems 805-1797-10 User Manual

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Forcing Network Speed Between 10 Mbps and 100
Mbps

1. At the

prompt, use the

show-devs

command to list the system devices.

You should see the full path names of the

qfe

devices, similar to the example

below:

/pci@1f,2000/pci@2/SUNW,qfe@0,1

/pci@1f,2000/pci@2/SUNW,qfe@1,1
/pci@1f,2000/pci@2/SUNW,qfe@2,1
/pci@1f,2000/pci@2/SUNW,qfe@3,1

2. Type:

ok nvedit

3. Type the following, pressing the Return key at the end of line

0: probe-all install-console banner

1: apply transfer-speed=10

(full path name of a

qfe

device)

Note -

If you already have commands in NRAM, append these lines to the end

of the file.

4. Press the Control-C keys after typing (full path name of a

qfe

device).

You will need to perform Steps 2 to 4 to set the network speed for each

qfe

channel.

Note -

In the above example, the speed is forced to 10 Mbps. To force the speed

to 100 Mbps, replace 10 with 100.

5. At the

prompt type:

ok nvstore

ok setenv use-nvramrc? true

6. Reboot your system.

See Appendix C,” for more information on forcing network speed.

Configuring the Driver Software