network card how to disable it

[call]

I have a p620 and I want to diable the network card so I can make changes to it.
Right now its set to 10 and I want to set the card to 100 full duplex. when I make the changes it tells me the resource is busy

here is what I do
smit chgenet
I pick the card I want to make changes to. it comes back failed resource is busy /usr/lib/methods/chgent

I went into network interface and where its said network card is up I change to down and it still tell me resource is busy. Can anybody help?

Thanks

 

[comtec17]

I believe you will need to go into single user mode.

 

[call]

I found a way just had to detach the card.

Now another question?

How do I put a secondary ip address on the same card?

 

[Boria]

Hi,
the last line in Change/Show is
Apply change to DATABASE only. Default is no, change it
to yes and do your changes. After rebooting changes
will take effect.
Regards Boris

 

[jg156310]

Without booting method :

stopsrc -g tcpip
rmdev -dl et# (
rmdev -el en#
rmdev -dl ent#
cfgmgr
smit devices
communication

 

[MoshiachNow]

Hi,

We use the following script to enabler the user to remove ANY entX interface interactively:
========================
#!/bin/ksh
############################################################
#A simple script that removes any entX interface,after stopping all network protocols and removing the relevant enX
###########################################################################################

#Get the required entX name from the input
if [[ $1 != ent? ]] ;then
echo “Usage: rment.sh <entX> “
exit 1
fi

ENT=$1 #This is required ent
EN=`echo $1 |cut –c 4` #This is required en number

#Check that entX exists, exit if not
lsdev –Cs pci |grep ent|awk '{ print $1 }'|grep $1
if [[ $? != 0 ]] ;then
echo “$1 does not exist !”
exit 1
fi

while true
do
echo “PLEASE DO NOT RUN FROM TELNET ! THIS OPERATION WILL CUTT OFF ANY IP CONNECTIONS !”
echo &quot;Do you really want to remove the $1 (the script will exit if you choose No) (y/n) [Y]:\c&quot;
read answer
if [[ $answer = [Yy] ]] || [[ -z $answer ]] ;then
#Stop all networking
echo “stoping tcpip . . .”
stopsrc -g tcpip
sleep 5
echo “stoping nfs . . .”
stopsrc -g nfs
sleep 5
echo “removing the en$EN and et$EN . . .”
chdev -l en$EN -a state='down'
chdev -l et$EN -a state='down'
rmdev -dl en$EN
echo “removing the $1 . . .”
rmdev -dl $1
if [[ $? = 0 ]] ;then
echo “$1 was successfully removed.\nTo recover - run cfgmgr ,define TCPIP ,FULL/HALF DUPLEX ,and reboot”
exit 0
else
echo “$1 removal has failed !”
exit 1
fi
elif [[ $answer = [Nn] ]] ;then
exit
else
echo &quot;\n Please answer y/n only !\n&quot;
fi
done



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[jdrankos]

ifconfig en# down
ifconfig en# detatch

 

[call]

Thanks for all the help.

 

[blasvinas]

About your question. How do I put a secondary ip address on the same card?

If you want to have the save card with two different ip addresses you can use the command

ifconfig network_interface secondary_ipadress mask alias. e.g:

ifconfig en0 10.1.1.1 255.0.0.0 alias.

If you rebbot the server you have todo this again.

If you want to remove the secondary ip_address:

ifconfig en0 10.1.1.1 delete


Bye.

 

[MoshiachNow]

Just created a script to change the interface speed withoud reboot:
==============================================
#!/bin/ksh
##########################################################################
# Version 1.0
# This script enables changing the speed of a chozen network interface without a need fro reboot
# The user gets a list of the existing ent interfaces with teir current speed and IP setting
# Once he chooses the interfaces,he can choose the desired speed
# If you choose the speed that does not match this specific interface - the scripts gives an error
# usage : chent.sh
#####################################################################

#collect all ENTs info into file
for ENT in `lsdev -Cs pci|grep ent | awk '{ print $1 }'`;do
EN=`echo $ENT|cut -c 1,2,4`
mktcpip -S $EN 2>&1|grep -v host|awk -F: '{ printf ("%-4s %-15s %-15s %-12s %-12s ",$4,$2,$3,$5,$7 )}'
SPEED=`lsattr -El $ENT | grep -i media_ | awk '{ print $2 }'`
if [[ -z $SPEED ]] ;then
echo " "
else
echo $SPEED
fi
done > /tmp/EN

COUNT=`wc -l /tmp/EN|awk '{ print $1 }'`
integer A=1
oldIFS=$IFS #change field separator to "end-of-line"
IFS='\n'
while (( $A <= $COUNT )) ;do #fill up the array from the file
INTERFACE[A]=`head -n $A /tmp/EN|tail -1`
A=$A+1
done
A=$A-1

echo "---------------------------------------------------" |tee $LOGFILE
IFS='!' #change field separator to non-existing one just for "select"
echo "WARNING : do NOT try changing the default interface speed from remote !"
echo "This will cut off your remote connection.\n"
echo "Select the destination interface : \n"
printf "%-2s %-4s %-15s %-15s %-12s %-12s %-26s\n" " " "Int" "IP_address" "Mask" "DNS" "Gateway" "Speed"
printf "%-2s %-4s %-15s %-15s %-12s %-12s %-26s\n" " " "---" "----------" "----" "---" "-------" "-----"

#Select the INTERFACE
PS3="choose the interface >>"
select DEST_INTERFACE in ${INTERFACE[*]}
do
if [[ -z $DEST_INTERFACE ]]
then
printf -- "Choose the right number \n\n"
else
break
fi
done

IFS=$oldIFS #change field separator back to default !

FINAL_INT=`echo $DEST_INTERFACE|awk '{print $1}'|cut -c 3`

ERROR=1
#Select the speed
while [[ $ERROR = 1 ]] ;do
echo "\nSelect the required new speed :\n"
PS3="choose speed>>"
select SPEED_SET in 10_Half_Duplex 10_Full_Duplex 100_Half_Duplex 100_Full_Duplex Auto_Negotiation Exit
do
if [[ -z $SPEED_SET ]] ; then
printf -- "Choose the right number \n\n"
elif [[ $SPEED_SET = "Exit" ]] ;then
exit
else
break
fi
done

chdev -l en$FINAL_INT -a state='down' >/dev/null 2>&1
chdev -l et$FINAL_INT -a state='down' >/dev/null 2>&1
chdev -l en$FINAL_INT -a state='detach' >/dev/null 2>&1
chdev -l et$FINAL_INT -a state='detach' >/dev/null 2>&1
chdev -l ent$FINAL_INT -a media_speed="$SPEED_SET" 2>/dev/null
if [[ $? != 0 ]] ;then
ERROR=1
echo "\nThe selected speed does not match this interface options !"
else
ERROR=0
fi
chdev -l en$FINAL_INT -a state='up' >/dev/null 2>&1
chdev -l et$FINAL_INT-a state='up' >/dev/null 2>&1
done

echo "\nThe new speed is \c"
lsattr -El ent$FINAL_INT | grep -i media_speed|awk '{ print $2 }'
echo " "



Long live king Moshiach !

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