Note – Only Physical Networking is supported with Linux.
Physical Ethernet networking is faster than virtual Ethernet, but it requires an additional port to connect to your network. This means that you need to have two separate Ethernet connections: one for your Solaris system, and one for your SunPCi III card.
Physical Ethernet networking eliminates the need for routing to a third host in order for the Solaris system and the SunPCi III card to communicate with each other over the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Once physical Ethernet networking is set up, you can “see” both your SunPCi III card and your workstation in the list of network hosts.
Virtual Ethernet networking eliminates the need for a second network port. You share a single Ethernet connection between your system and your SunPCi III card. If you use virtual networking, you are not able to generate a network path between your SunPCi III card and your host Solaris system until you set up network connections. When multiple cards are installed in a system, virtual Ethernet networking is permanently disabled.
For specific instructions on the networking drivers for your operating system, refer to the corresponding installation chapter.
■To install the Windows XP Professional drivers, refer to Chapter 5.
■To install the Windows 2000 drivers, refer to Chapter 6.
■To install the Windows Server 2003 drivers, refer to Chapter 7.
■To install the Red Hat Linux drivers, refer to Chapter 8.
Caution – When one SunPCi III card is installed with the SunPCi III software, you can use either physical or virtual networking, but not both at once.
Note – When multiple cards are installed in your system, virtual networking is automatically disabled and you need to configure the TCP/IP network protocols for all Microsoft Windows configurations.
