Owner's Manual

42 Deployment Guide
2 Verify that a Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit or Intel PRO/1000 family NIC is connected with a Cat 5e
cable to the Gigabit Ethernet switch. This is your private NIC.
3 Determine which driver module your private NIC uses.
The Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit uses
tg3 , and the Intel PRO/1000 family uses e1000 .
4 View the /etc/modprobe.conf file by typing:
more /etc/modprobe.conf
Several lines appear with the format alias ethX driver-module , where X is the Ethernet
interface number and
driver-module is the module you determined in step 3.
For example, the line
alias eth1 tg3 appears if your operating system assigned eth1 to
a Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit NIC.
5 Determine which Ethernet interfaces (eth X ) have been assigned to the type of Gigabit NIC that is
connected to the Gigabit switch.
If there is only one entry in
/etc/modprobe.conf for your driver module type, then you have successfully
identified the private network interface.
6 If you have more than one of the same type of NIC in your system, experiment to determine which
Ethernet interface is assigned to each NIC.
For each Ethernet interface, follow the steps in "Configuring the Private Network" for the correct driver
module until you have identified the correct Ethernet interface.
Troubleshooting
Table 1-8 provides recommended actions for problems that you may encounter while deploying and using
your Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Oracle software.
Table 1-7. Integrated NICs
System Integrated NICs
PowerEdge 1850 Intel PRO/1000 (2)
PowerEdge 2800 Intel PRO/1000 (2)
PowerEdge 2850 Intel PRO/1000 (2)
PowerEdge 6800 Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit (2)
PowerEdge 6850 Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit (2)