I got quite a few responses and they all varied in their suggested best practice. The choices were updating /etc/system, creating a run script in /etc/rc2.d or updating /platform/sun4u/kernel/drv/ce.conf or bge.conf >From the research that I did, you supposedly cannot configure ce and bge interfaces from the /etc/system file like you can with eri and hme interfaces. I haven't tested this to verify, but don't have the luxury of taking the system down a couple of times to test if it works or not. This then leave either the /platform .... Directory where you configure a file or a run script. Someone else commented that they had used this method as suggested by Sun or others, but that when he ran patch updates, that the directory was overwritten and he ran into the same issue. So, my suggestion would be to use a script in /etc/rc2.d to set the network speed and duplex. Someone else had mentioned setting autonegotiation on both the switch and the server, but we have to know what to expect from the network and I haven't had good luck with auto on both the server and switch, and the cards we have could go either 10/100/1000 same as the switch. It seems like it leaves too much for chance. I saw something on sunsolve where it looked like you could also set this at the PROM level, but I think that would cause headaches down the road if your group didn't document settings and people couldn't find a configuration file where the settings were being set. Dan _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Mon Oct 2 09:53:24 2006
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