Sol10 bge* boot issue

[AnotherAlan]

Hi all,

I have a V240 with Solaris10, bge cards enabled with IPMP.
When rebooting this box (DBAs testing new app so getting rebooted often) the bge cards fail and I consequently have no network. I can reset these through the sc by setting auto negotiate to 1, however, I cannot understand why this keeps happening. Networks deny any problems on the switch.

Thanks

 

[Annihilannic]

Is there a /platform/`uname -m`/kernel/drv/bge.conf on the system? If not, try creating one containing the following:

[tt]adv-autoneg-cap=1[/tt]

Annihilannic.

 

[AnotherAlan]

Hi Anni,

Thanks for the quick response. I do have the bge.conf file.
What I have found is that it makes no difference whether auto neg is set to either 1 or 0. Just as long as I run the ndd -set from the sc things come back to life.
I've set this up to toggle them during boot, but still no joy.

Output of bge.conf below;
# Overide 100 full for interconnects

name="bge" parent="/pci@1f,700000" unit-address="2" adv_autoneg_cap=0 adv_1000fdx_cap=1 adv_1000hdx_cap=0 adv_100fdx_cap=0 adv_100hdx_cap=0 adv_10fdx_cap=0 adv_10hdx_cap=0;

name="bge" parent="/pci@1f,700000" unit-address="2,1" adv_autoneg_cap=0 adv_1000fdx_cap=1 adv_1000hdx_cap=0 adv_100fdx_cap=0 adv_100hdx_cap=0 adv_10fdx_cap=0 adv_10hdx_cap=0;

name="bge" parent="/pci@1d,700000" unit-address="2" adv_autoneg_cap=1 adv_1000dx_cap=1 adv_1000hdx_cap=0 adv_100fdx_cap=0 adv_100hdx_cap=0 adv_10fdx_cap=0 adv_10hdx_cap=0;

name="bge" parent="/pci@1d,700000" unit-address="2,1" adv_autoneg_cap=1 adv_1000fdx_cap=1 adv_1000hdx_cap=0 adv_100fdx_cap=0 adv_100hdx_cap=0 adv_10fdx_cap=0 adv_10hdx_cap=0;

Thanks for your help.
Alan

 

[Annihilannic]

What speed do they autonegotiate to? Have you tried forcing it to those settings instead?

Annihilannic.

 

[AnotherAlan]

Hi Anni,

I'm checking this out with my Network boys. Thanks again for the assistance.

Alan

 

[AnotherAlan]

Anni, thanks for all your pointers for this.
Problem was an intermittent error on the port.

Damn networks, worse than DBA's.

Alan