Installation guide

Network Adapter Card Installation Guide - Book II

Instance number belonging to skge0: 0

Instance number belonging to skge1: 1

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After you have determined the adapters you want to configure,

configuration with skge_vlan_config can be started.

3. Start the script by entering the following at the command line:

skge_vlan_config

The script will prompt you to define the following parameters:

4. Instance number: Enter the instance number of the adapter to

configure.

5. VLAN ID: Enter a VLAN ID for each VLAN. Allowed values range from

1 to 4094. The IDs distinguish the VLANs in your network topology.

Note

Please be careful: switches that are VLAN capable often have a

default VLAN configured. Do not choose the same VLAN ID as used

in the switch or change the ID of the switch default VLAN.

6. Jumbo Frame Support: Decide whether the VLAN is to support

Jumbo frames or not. If not all VLANs for the same adapter need

jumbo frame support, this is no problem. The adapter will be

configured accordingly.

Note

It is not necessary to set the MTU size for jumbo frames in the file

/etc/rcS.d/S50skge manually. The script will do this for you.

7. Hostname: Enter the hostname to be used for the VLAN IP interface.

8. IP Address: Enter the IP address for the VLAN IP interface.

9. Netmask: Enter the netmask for the VLAN IP interface.

When you have finished defining the parameters, the script adds all

necessary entries to the file /kernel/drv/skge.conf, adds all entries to

the files /etc/hosts and /etc/netmasks and creates all

/etc/hostname.<interface> files.

When the configuration is finished, you have two possibilities to

activate the changes in skge.conf:

— Reboot the system.

— Unload the driver with rem_drv and load it again with

add_drv.