In the past, I always had to use the ndd – get command to figure out what my link speed and duplex settings were. In Solaris 10, Sun now gives us the handy dladm command, which makes it a whole lot easier. # dladm show-dev e1000g2 link: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full e1000g3 link: [...]
So we all know that Sun is a cool company with a great sense of humor, but they really outdid themselves when they named this combination SCSI / Ethernet card Happy Meal! It’s a pretty old card, and honestly I had forgotten that I had installed it in my test system until I setup REL [...]
I’ve been struggling to gather an image from our brand-spanking new Dell GX280′s using the Ghost Console, but I kept getting an error saying that “The DOS Network Adaptor Configuration Template is Corrupt…” after the machine initiated the reboot process and unjoined the domain. It turns out that the Broadcom NetXtreme card had some bugs, [...]
After doing a number of system upgrades over the weekend, I became quickly frustrated by the fact that the standard settings in the /etc/system file, normally used to lock the Ethernet interface to 100 / Full Duplex don’t seem to work if your server is using a "ce" or "bge" Ethernet card. Normally, the settings [...]
