Fiber NIC card

[telemorgan]

New to UNIX\Solaris

We are currently using the ethernet network card in our V880 to communicate on the network. However our box also has a fiber network card as well. I am not physically located in the same building as the server. Is there a way that I can look through the OS to find out what type of card this is? We want to eventually switch over to the fiber card but I need to find out what type of fiber connections are on it so that I can purchase the correct cables.

Thanks

 

[dandan123]

The printdiag command will tell you what type of card it is.

If memory serves me right it's a "ge" interface.

 

[telemorgan]

Here is what I got. Not sure which one the card is?
Can you help, I do not see any "ge", thanks


Bus Max
IO Port Bus Freq Bus Dev,
Brd Type ID Side Slot MHz Freq Func State Name Model
---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- ----- -------------------------------- ----------------------
I/O PCI 8 B 2 33 33 3,0 ok SUNW,XVR-100 SUNW,375-3126
I/O PCI 8 B 1 33 33 4,0 ok scsi-pci1000,f.1000.1000.14/disk+
I/O PCI 8 B 1 33 33 4,1 ok scsi-pci1000,f.1000.1000.14/disk+
I/O PCI 8 B 0 33 33 5,0 ok pci-pci8086,b154.0/scsi (scsi) PCI-BRIDGE
I/O PCI 8 B 0 33 33 4,0 ok scsi-pci1077,1016/sd (block) QLGC,ISP10160/pci-brid+
I/O PCI 8 B 0 33 33 5,0 ok scsi-pci1077,1016/sd (block) QLGC,ISP10160/pci-brid+
I/O PCI 9 A 8 66 66 1,0 ok pci-pci8086,b154.0/SUNW,qlc (scs+ PCI-BRIDGE
I/O PCI 9 A 8 66 66 4,0 ok SUNW,qlc-pci1077,2200.1077.4083.+ device on pci-bridge
I/O PCI 9 A 8 66 66 5,0 ok SUNW,qlc-pci1077,2200.1077.4083.+ device on pci-bridge
I/O PCI 9 A 7 66 66 2,0 ok pci-pci8086,b154.0/network (netw+ PCI-BRIDGE
I/O PCI 9 A 7 66 66 0,0 ok network-pci108e,abba.11 SUNW,pci-ce/pci-bridge


I also read that running the command 'ifconfig -a plump' will show the card info but I'm leary about running that command after reading the man page on it.

Thanks

 

[dandan123]

you can do a

ifconfig ge0 plumb down

and then

ifconfig -a

 

[cndcadams]

telemorgan;

There is an onboard fibre port (ge) with a LC style connector. This will not show up in prtdiag.

Also depending on your OS there is a command prtfru which will give some of the part#'s in your system and you may be able to research those and see if they are fibre cards.

command;

prtfru | grep Sun_Part_No

Thanks

CA