From: Bill Thompson (bill.thompson@GOODYEAR.COM)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 11:06:04 EDT
Basim,
I have the Gigabit adapter in slot number 1 of drawer 1 (AIX location
20-58). According to the "PCI Adapter Placement Reference" FC 2969: the
Gigabit Ethernet-SX PCI (Type 9-U) can be placed in slots 10, 1, 9, 3, 4,
or 2 of the Primary drawer.
I can't put it in slot 10 because I have a switch adapter in this node
which *has* to go in slot 10. Slot 9 is also taken up by the switch adapter
(the switch adapter takes up three slots) and the remaining slots (3, 4,
and 2) are 32 bit.
With a switch adapter, slot 1 is the only 64 bit slot available.
Bill Thompson
Sr UNIX Systems Administrator
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Basim Chafik" <basimc@INVERA.COM>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.aix-l
To: <aix-l@Princeton.EDU>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: Gigabit Ethernet
> Bill,
>
> I've seen weird problem before if any adapter, and necessarily gigabit
> adapter, is installed in the right slot. Check/recheck your S7A H/W guid.
>
> Basim Chafik
>
> Senior Technology Consultant
> IBM Certified Advanced Technical Expert - RS/6000 AIX
> Invera Inc.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Thompson [mailto:bill.thompson@GOODYEAR.COM]
> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 10:06 AM
> To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
> Subject: Gigabit Ethernet
>
>
> Admins,
>
> I know a number of you are using Gigabit Ethernet adapters in your
> RS/6000's. Hopefully you can help me with mine.
>
> I've installed the adapter in an S7A (AIX 4.3.3), installed the
appropriate
> drivers, and rebooted the machine.
>
> DRIVER INFORMATION
> >lslpp -L 'devices.pci.14100401.*'
> Fileset Level State Description
>
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> devices.pci.14100401.diag
> 4.3.3.50 C Gigabit Ethernet-SX PCI
> Adapter
> Diagnostics
> devices.pci.14100401.rte 4.3.3.75 C Gigabit Ethernet-SX PCI
> Adapter
> Software
>
> HARDWARE INFORMATION
> >lsdev -Cc adapter -l ent5
> ent5 Available 20-58 Gigabit Ethernet-SX PCI Adapter (14100401)
>
> lsdev shows the adapter (ent5) however, there is no corresponding en5
entry
> in the ODM but I am able to access en5 from system command. For example,
I
> was able to configure en5 with the ifconfig command:
>
> > ifconfig en5
> en5:
>
flags=7e080863,10<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,GROUPRT,
> 64BIT,CHECKSUM_OFFLOAD,CHECKSUM_SUPPORT,PSEG>
> inet 10.100.92.200 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.100.92.255
>
> I see a link light on the back of the card, but I'm unable to access the
> outside world. I've had our Telecom department diagnose their end of the
> connection. They monitored the switch port the adapter is connected to
and
> said the adapter was not broadcasting it's MAC address. The also put a
> light meter on the fibre connection and found a 6.75 db loss from the
> switch to the adapter and a 8.95 db loss from the adapter to the switch.
> Both are under 9.5 db which is supposed to be an acceptable loss.
>
> I ran diagnostics on the adapter and no trouble was found.
>
> Some other information:
>
> NETSTAT
> > netstat -in | egrep '^Name|^en5'
> Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs
Coll
> en5 1500 link#8 0.2.55.9a.99.7b 73 0 1 0
> 0
> en5 1500 10.100.92 10.100.92.200
>
> LSATTR
> -> lsattr -El ent5
> busmem 0x8fefc000 Bus memory address
> False
> busintr 19 Bus interrupt level
> False
> intr_priority 3 Interrupt priority
> False
> rx_que_size 512 Receive queue size
> False
> tx_que_size 8192 Software transmit queue size
> True
> jumbo_frames no Transmit jumbo frames
> True
> media_speed Auto_Negotiation Media Speed (10/100/1000 Base-T Ethernet)
> True
> use_alt_addr no Enable alternate ethernet address
> True
> alt_addr 0x000000000000 Alternate ethernet address
> True
> trace_flag 0 Adapter firmware debug trace flag
> True
> copy_bytes 2048 Copy packet if this many or less bytes
> True
> tx_done_ticks 1000000 Clock ticks before TX done interrupt
> True
> tx_done_count 64 TX buffers used before TX done interrupt
> True
> receive_ticks 50 Clock ticks before RX interrupt
> True
> receive_bds 6 RX packets before RX interrupt
> True
> receive_proc 16 RX buffers before adapter updated
> True
> rxdesc_count 1000 RX buffers processed per RX interrupt
> True
> stat_ticks 1000000 Clock ticks before statistics updated
> True
> rx_checksum yes Enable hardware receive checksum
> True
> flow_ctrl yes Enable Transmit and Receive Flow Control
> True
> slih_hog 10 Interrupt events processed per interrupt
> True
>
> (note: our switch does not support jumbo frames)
>
> ENTSTAT
> > entstat en5
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> ETHERNET STATISTICS (en5) :
> Device Type: Gigabit Ethernet-SX PCI Adapter (14100401)
> Hardware Address: 00:02:55:9a:99:7b
> Elapsed Time: 0 days 0 hours 3 minutes 32 seconds
>
> Transmit Statistics: Receive Statistics:
> -------------------- -------------------
> Packets: 1 Packets: 89
> Bytes: 60 Bytes: 8975
> Interrupts: 1 Interrupts: 82
> Transmit Errors: 0 Receive Errors: 0
> Packets Dropped: 0 Packets Dropped: 0
> Bad Packets: 0
> Max Packets on S/W Transmit Queue: 1
> S/W Transmit Queue Overflow: 0
> Current S/W+H/W Transmit Queue Length: 0
>
> Broadcast Packets: 1 Broadcast Packets: 89
> Multicast Packets: 0 Multicast Packets: 0
> No Carrier Sense: 0 CRC Errors: 0
> DMA Underrun: 0 DMA Overrun: 0
> Lost CTS Errors: 0 Alignment Errors: 0
> Max Collision Errors: 0 No Resource Errors: 0
> Late Collision Errors: 0 Receive Collision Errors: 0
> Deferred: 0 Packet Too Short Errors: 0
> SQE Test: 0 Packet Too Long Errors: 0
> Timeout Errors: 0 Packets Discarded by
Adapter:
> 0
> Single Collision Count: 0 Receiver Start Count: 0
> Multiple Collision Count: 0
> Current HW Transmit Queue Length: 0
>
> General Statistics:
> -------------------
> No mbuf Errors: 0
> Adapter Reset Count: 0
> Adapter Data Rate: 2000
> Driver Flags: Up Broadcast Running
> Simplex AlternateAddress 64BitSupport
> ChecksumTCP ChecksumOffload PrivateSegment
>
>
> ROUTE INFORMATION
> > netstat -rn | grep 10.100.92
> 10.100.92/24 10.100.92.200 U 0 0 en5 - -
>
>
> Sorry for the length of the post but I wanted to supply all the
information
> I could.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions on how to get this adapter to work it would
> really be appreciated.
>
> Also, does anyone know why en5 would not be in the ODM?
>
> TIA
>
> Bill Thompson
> Sr UNIX Systems Administrator
> The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
>
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