Installation guide

Network Adapter Card Installation Guide - Book II
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“ndd” Support
Starting with version 3.10, the driver supports the Solaris tool 'ndd' for
reading driver parameters and statistics. For details on 'ndd', refer to the
man page. The driver supports the following parameters:
- ? : a list of all parameters is displayed. Do not forget to quote the
question mark with a backspace: ndd /dev/skgeX \?
Otherwise the ? will be interpreted by the shell as a metacharacter.
X in skgeX is the number of the according interface.
- link_status : Up or Down
- link_mode : 1=full-duplex, 0=half-duplex
- link_speed : 10|100|1000 (Mbits per second)
- port_count : number of ports on adapter
- adapter_id : adapter identification string
- hw_revision : hardware revision number
- instance_num : instance number of adapter
- ring_sizes : a list of the following parameters is displayed:
- RX ring size: # of RX descriptor ring buffers
- TX ring size: # of TX descriptor ring buffers
- port_props : a list of the following parameters is displayed:
- Port: used port for this device
- Link Status: see link_status above.
- Link Speed: see link_speed above.
- Jumbo Frames: jumbo frames enabled?
- VLAN: VLAN support enabled?
- RX ring size: # of RX descriptor ring buffers
- TX ring size: # of TX descriptor ring buffers
- RLMT Mode: RLMT mode used for this port.
— For possible values see parameter RlmtMode_InstX in Per-port
Parameters on page 76.
- AutoNegotiation: auto-negotiation used?