9.After installing the Solaris Operating System, install the Sun x8 Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet software on the client system.

The software installed in Step 4 is required to boot the client system over the 10- Gigabit Ethernet interface. You now need to install the software in order for the operating system to use the client’s 10-Gigabit Ethernet interfaces in normal operation.

Before installing the Sun 10-Gigabit Ethernet driver, ensure that the client system does not already have the driver installed. Use the pkginfo command to see if the Sun 10-Gigabit Ethernet software packages are installed on the client system.

#pkginfo grep SUNWnxge

If the software is installed, the previous command will return the package name you typed in. In that case, skip to Step 10.

If the software is not installed, install the software from the download center. See Chapter 2 for instructions on installing the required software packages.

10.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 23 for more information about editing these files.

11.Use the dladm show-devcommand to show configuration information for all data-links or the specified data-link. By default, the system is configured to have one data-link for each known network device.

# dladm show-dev

 

 

 

e1000g0

link: up

speed: 1000

Mbps

duplex: full

e1000g1

link: down

speed: 0

Mbps

duplex: half

e1000g2

link: down

speed: 0

Mbps

duplex: half

e1000g3

link: down

speed: 0

Mbps

duplex: half

nxge0

link: up

speed: 10000 Mbps

duplex: full

nxge1

link: up

speed: 10000 Mbps

duplex: full

 

 

 

 

 

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Sun Microsystems 10GBE XFP manual # pkginfo grep SUNWnxge, # dladm show-dev