Sun Microsystems Gigabit Ethernet MMF/UTP Adapter manual Tuning for Maximum Performance, # dmesg

8. Run the dmesg command to see which devices the e1000 driver was mapped to:

#dmesg

divert: allocating divert_blk for eth3

e1000: eth3: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection

e1000: eth2: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex

e1000: eth3: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex

9.Add the e1000 interfaces to the /etc/modules.conf file for 2.4 based kernels and to /etc/modprobe.conf file for 2.6 based kernels.

alias eth2 e1000

alias eth3 e1000

10.Use the ethtool command to check the parameter configurations that apply to the e1000 driver.

#ethtool eth3

Settings for eth3:

Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]

Supported link modes: 1000baseT/Full

Supports auto-negotiation: Yes

Advertised link modes: 1000baseT/Full

Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes

Speed: 1000Mb/s

Duplex: Full

Port: FIBRE

PHYAD: 0

Transceiver: internal

Auto-negotiation: on

Supports Wake-on: umbg

Wake-on: g

Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)

Link detected: yes

Tuning for Maximum Performance

The following tunings will improve the performance of the Sun 10-Gigabit Ethernet device driver on a system running the Linux operating system.

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