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Sun Microsystems 816-0830-12 manual Manually plumb fp instances, # ifconfig fcip0 plumb

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3.Manually plumb fp instances.

Use the ifconfig interface plumb command.

#ifconfig fcip0 plumb

If no error message is displayed, manual plumbing has succeeded. Repeat this step for the other fp instances identified in Step 2.

▼To Determine an FP Instance for a Known HBA Port Physical Device Path

1.Determine the HBA PCI adapter slot and the I/O board PCI slot. You will need this information to perform the calculation in Step 2.

For example, assume you have a Sun StorEdge 3500 array with a HBA card located in the PCI adapter slot 5 and the PCI adapter is in slot 1 of the I/O board.

2.Determine fp instance number.

a.Use an editor to search for the fp driver binding name in the /etc/ path_to_inst file.

Entries will have “fp” on the line.

b.Narrow search by using the I/O board and slot information from Step 1.

i.Multiply the PCI adapter slot number by 2.

Using the Sun StorEdge 3500 array with a HBA in PCI adapter slot 5, you would multiply 5 with 2 and get 10.

ii.Add the PCI adapter I/O board slot number to the number derived in Step i.

Using the Sun StorEdge 3500 array with a HBA in PCI adapter slot 5 and PCI slot 1 of the I/O board, you would add 1 to 10 for a sum of 11.

iii.Convert the number derived in Step ii to hexadecimal. The number 11 converts to b in hexadecimal.

iv.Search for the “fp” entry with pci@hex where hex is the number you derived in Step iv.

CODE EXAMPLE 9-1shows a single Fibre channel network adapter device path; TABLE 9-1defines its significance. The instance number for this device path is 7.

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816-0830-12 specifications

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