Sun Microsystems 6U manual Booting the System Over a Sun Quad FastEthernet Interface

6.Use the ifconfig command to activate the adapter’s Ethernet interfaces.

For each adapter interface, type the following at the command line, replacing instance with the interface’s instance number and ip_address with the interface’s IP address:

#ifconfig qfeinstance ip_address plumb up

For example, if you were using the adapter’s four interfaces, and they were named qfe0, qfe1, qfe2, and qfe3, you would type:

#ifconfig qfe0 ip_address plumb up

#ifconfig qfe1 ip_address plumb up

#ifconfig qfe2 ip_address plumb up

#ifconfig qfe3 ip_address plumb up

The adapter’s network interfaces should now be using the unique MAC addresses.

Booting the System Over a Sun Quad FastEthernet Interface

Perform the following procedure to use a Sun Quad FastEthernet 6U CompactPCI adapter Ethernet interface as the boot device.

▼To Boot the System Over the Network

1.Before shutting down the operating environment and halting the system, make sure that all significant application activity on the server has stopped.

2.Follow the appropriate procedures, as documented in the system’s service manual, to shut down and halt the system.

Refer to the system’s documentation for the complete power off procedure. For example, if you were powering off a Netra ct server, you would refer to the Netra ct Server Service Manual.

After shutting down the system, you should see the OpenBoot PROM ok prompt on the system console.

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