Ethernet Port Device And Driver Naming - Sun Oracle Sun Fire X4270 M2 Service Manual

2.5.1.4

Ethernet Port Device and Driver Naming

The server supports four 10/100/1000BASE-T Gigabit Ethernet ports on the rear of
the chassis. For port locations, see
The device naming for the Ethernet interfaces is reported differently by different
interfaces and operating systems. See
(operating system) naming conventions used for each interface.
TABLE 2-4
Interface
BIOS
Solaris 10 10/09
RHEL 5.4 (64-bit) eth0
Oracle Linux 5.4
(64-bit)
SLES 10 SP3
(64-bit) and
SLES 11 (64-bit)
Windows 2008
Oracle VM 2.2.1
VMware ESX 4.0
and ESXi 4.0
* If you are using the XEN kernel in RHEL 5, there will be XEN bridge devices associated with each logical
port. The ports for these bridge devices will be named xenbrn, where n is 0-3.
† If you are using the XEN kernel in Oracle Linux 5, there will be XEN bridge devices associated with each
logical port. The ports for these bridge devices will be named xenbrn, where n is 0-3.
‡ If you are using the XEN kernel in SLES 10 or SLES 11, there will be XEN bridge devices associated with
each logical port. The ports for these bridge devices will be named xenbrn, where n is 0-3.
** For VMware, the Ethernet port that the user assigns to the service console will be vmnic0. Other ports are
mapped by ascending order of the PCI bus enumerations.
Logical Port Naming
NET0 NET1
slot 108 slot 109
igb0 igb1
*
eth1
†
eth0 eth1
‡
eth0 eth1
net1 net2
xenbr0 xenbr1
**
vmnic# vmnic#
.
FIGURE 1-2
for the physical (BIOS) and logical
TABLE 2-4
NET2
slot 110
igb2
eth2
eth2
eth2
net3
xenbr2
vmnic#
Chapter 2 Preparing to Service the System
NET3
slot 111
igb3
eth3
eth3
eth3
net4
xenbr3
vmnic#
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