Forcing Network Speed Between 10 Mbps And 100 Mbps - Sun Microsystems Quad FastEthernet Installation And User Manual

Forcing Network Speed Between 10 Mbps and 100 Mbps

1. At the ok prompt, use the show-devs command to list the system devices.
You should see the full path names of the hme devices, similar to the
example below:
/sbus@1f,0/SUNW,hme@1,8c30000
/sbus@1f,0/SUNW,hme@1,8c20000
/sbus@1f,0/SUNW,hme@1,8c10000
/sbus@1f,0/SUNW,hme@1,8c00000
2. Type:
ok nvedit
3. Type the following, pressing the Return key at the end of line 0:
0: probe-all install-console banner
1: apply transfer-speed=10 (full path name of an hme device)
Note – If you already have commands in NRAM, append these lines to the end
of the file.
4. Press the Control-C keys after typing (full path name of a hme device).
Note – In the above example, the speed is forced to 10 Mbps. To force the
speed to 100 Mbps, replace 10 with 100.
Note – You will need to perform Steps 2 to 4 to set the network speed for each
hme channel.
5. At the ok prompt type:
ok nvstore
ok setenv use-nvramrc? true
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