Network Card User Manual

78 Sun Quad FastEthernet 6U CompactPCI Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • June 2000

Replacing the Adapter and Activating

the Network Interfaces

This procedure describes how to activate the qfe interfaces after replacing the

adapter into the system.

▼ To Replace the Adapter and Activate the

Network Interfaces

1. Replace the adapter as documented in your system’s service manual.

Caution – You must follow the instructions outlined in your system’s service

manual for the replacement of network interface I/O cards. If you do not follow the

procedures in service manual, you may cause your system to panic.

2. Log in to the system as superuser.

Refer to the system’s documentation for the procedure.

3. Activate the qfe interfaces using the ifconfig command.

For each adapter interface, type the following at the terminal prompt, replacing

instance with the interface’s instance number and ip_address with the interface’s

IP address:

For example, if you want to activate four qfe devices named qfe0, qfe1, qfe2, and

qfe3, you would type:

Note – The IP addresses shown above are examples. Your interfaces will have

different IP addresses.

# ifconfig qfeinstance ip_address plumb up

# ifconfig qfe0 129.144.10.83 plumb up

# ifconfig qfe1 129.144.10.41 plumb up

# ifconfig qfe2 129.144.10.67 plumb up

# ifconfig qfe3 129.144.10.30 plumb up