Sun Microsystems X1150A manual Booting Over the GigaSwift Ethernet Network

11.Confirm that the network host files have been configured correctly during the Solaris installation.

Although the Solaris software installation creates the client’s network configuration files, you may need to edit these files to match your specific networking environment. See “Configuring the Network Host Files” on page 25 for more information about editing these files.

Booting Over the GigaSwift Ethernet Network

The Sun GigaSwift Ethernet adapter can be linked up either with Auto-Negotiation enabled or disabled. When link-up is attempted with Auto-Negotiation enabled (the default), the link parameter capabilities (such as speed in megabits/second, duplex and link-clock mastership only for 1000 Mbps) are automatically negotiated between the device and its link partner. Attempting to link-up with Auto-Negotiation disabled requires knowledge of the current capabilities at which both the device and its link partner are configured.

The structure of the boot net command line that includes device parameters is as follows:

ok boot device-path:speed=s,duplex=d,link-clock=c,promiscuous,

where,

s = 1000, 100, 10, auto d = half, full, auto

c = master, slave, auto

Note –Refer to the IEEE 802.3 (G)MII register specification for the details on Auto- Negotiated and non-Auto-Negotiated modes of operation. (To establish the link successfully so that traffic is transfered without collisions caused by duplex mismatch between the local and remote devices both the local and remote link capabilities must be matched.)

TABLE 3-1depicts the device link parameters you can specify on the boot net command line to establish a link between the local and remote device. TABLE 3-2shows the speed, duplex and link-clockcapabilities at which a link-up will be attempted:

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