What kind of NIC installed?

[geekbyday]

A year or two ago I installed a new NIC on a Solaris 8 box. I've since forgot what model it was. I really need to know, but it's at a data center that's 30+ miles away(so I can't just crack the case). I can't think of any commands that will tell me what model/version of NIC's are installed. Any help would be awesome. Thanks in advance.

 

[mbrooks]

% dmesg -a

or if you are like me you have a boot_log

M. Brooks

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[WhiteVolg]

prtdiag may help as well.

 

[WhiteVolg]

Is this Sol8 x86 or sparc?

 

[geekbyday]

mbrooks:
RE: dmesg -a. I've been there. It doesn't really show what I need. I know it's HME2 that's having the problem. I'm running a firewall on this box and every 7 days it freaks out and I have to reboot.

So what I really need to know is what model is installed.

WhiteVolg:
prtdiag shows:
========================= IO Cards =========================
Bus Freq
Brd Type MHz Slot Name Model
--- ---- ---- ---- -------------------------------- ----------------------
0 PCI 33 1 network-SUNW,hme
0 PCI 33 1 SUNW,hme-pci108e,1001 SUNW,qsi-cheerio
0 PCI 33 2 SUNW,hme-pci108e,1001 SUNW,qsi-cheerio
0 PCI 33 3 scsi-glm/disk (block) Symbios,53C875
0 PCI 33 3 scsi-glm/disk (block) Symbios,53C875
0 PCI 33 4 SUNW,hme-pci108e,1001 SUNW,qsi-cheerio
0 PCI 33 5 SUNW,m64B SUNW,370-4362
No failures found in System

Thanks for the quick response guys. Any further help is much appreciated.

 

[geekbyday]

Sorry it's Sparc..

 

[cndcadams]

geekbyday;

Need to know what model system? this way with the path_to_inst file info we can determine what slot it is in and use that info with prtdiag output to determine the slot it is in

Also run more /etc/path_to_inst | grep hme and post output.

From this we can figure out what slot it is in and make the decision and what card it may be.

Thanks

CA

 

[WhiteVolg]

SUNW,hme-pci108e,1001 SUNW,qsi-cheerio

Those are your 3 Sun Network Cards
Although why in the world it's showing 2 devices in slot 1.... hmm.. I may have to dig for this one.. I'd suggest one of the following:

 showrev -p|grep 108981

If does not return a patch 108981-14 then grab it and install. there were a number of overload bugs in the hme drivers.
108981-14

was the hme card a genuine Sun card as far as you know?

 

[WhiteVolg]

Oh also can you post the result of this:

grep hme /etc/path_to_inst|grep \"2\"

It'll tell me which one is the culprit.
Sorry , If I was still at sun I could cross ref that SUNW,hme-pci108e,1001 and get you a part number, but from the outside it's a bit harder.

 

[cndcadams]

geekbyday;

As WhiteVolg asked is this a sun card and also do you remember if it had an MII connector on it?

CA

 

[WhiteVolg]

Ack, on that grep \"2\" .. just make it grep 2

 

[WhiteVolg]

Anyway, form that it looks like you have 4 ports, Onboard network hmel, 3
SunFast hme cards. Unless I miss my guess, your looking at the one in Slot 2, unless the cards were not inserted at the same time.. then it's pot luck until I see the path_to_inst hme entries.

 

[geekbyday]

All:
pretty sure it was a Sun card. Not sure about the MII connector though.

WhiteVolg:
showrev -p|grep 108981
returned:
108981-10
My other server/firewall has 108981-14 on it. And it doesn't have the issues I'm having with this server. I'm going to grab that and install tonight. Will let you guys know if I continue having the problems. Thanks!

cndcadams: best memory says they are 280r's.

 

[cndcadams]

I agree with WhiteVolg it looks like a X1033A or 501-5019 card which would include the MII connector.

Thanks

CA

 

[geekbyday]

yes it's hme1 onboard and 3 hmecards.

cndcadams: Would any of those fall into the catagory of needing the 108981-14 patch? Like I said, that patch is installed on my other firewall and it doesn't have the problem where I need to reboot every 7 or 8 days to regain performance....

 

[cndcadams]

Well I can say the patch is for /kernel/drv/hme driver issues so I would say that it does seem to pertain to hme issues. Is that was is causing your issue I can't tell you, it may just be bad hardware but usually a bad card will just be plain bad. I would say that trying the patch is worth it and just so you know WhiteVolg is new to the forum but did work at Sun so his knowledge seems to be solid and I would go with his suggestion to load it.

Thanks

CA

 

[WhiteVolg]

Anybody wanna slap me...
Those are the ancient and mighty Sun Cheerios!
Dude, if it's bad, and you're patched up.. order up a new gem (qig ether) and scrap the cheerio. That thing is ANCIENT.
The only thing older than a PCI Cheerio is an sbus cheerio or an old 10Mbit sbus card.

 

[geekbyday]

Yeah they're pretty old I hear ya. We're scrapping these things later this year anyways for appliance firewalls. I've just got to keep them working till then. I'm going to install the patches this evening and see how it turns out. Thanks guys! It may take a few days for me to re-post since it seems to take about 7 days for the performance to start declining... Thanks again!