To enable autonegotiation using the ndd utility, To enable autonegotiation – Sun Microsystems FASTETHERNET 6U User Manual

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Appendix B

Configuring the Sun Quad FastEthernet Device Driver Parameters

To Enable Autonegotiation Using the

ndd

Utility

This section describes how to set at least one of the four operational modes and
enable autonegotiation. See “Autonegotiation Protocol” on page 45 for more
information about the autonegotiation and operational modes.

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To Enable Autonegotiation

1. Use the

ndd

utility to select the

qfe

instance that you want to set.

See “Identifying Device Instances” on page 65 for more information.

2. Select at least one of the four operational mode parameters (

adv_100fdx_cap

adv_100hdx_cap

adv_10fdx_cap

adv_10hdx_cap

) that you want to advertise

to the remote link partner, and set its value to 1.

For example, to make the interface advertise a 10 Mbps, full-duplex mode, you
would type:

3. Use the

ndd

utility to enable autonegotiation mode by setting the

adv_autoneg_cap

parameter to 1.

# ndd -set /dev/qfe instance

instance-number

# ndd -set /dev/qfe adv_10fdx_cap 1

# ndd -set /dev/qfe adv_autoneg_cap 1