Table of contents

Gigabit Ethernet on UNIX

Getting There....

The Path is Long....

Where did it come from?

What is ethernet?

Why would we want it?

10Base5

10Base2

10BaseT

10BaseF and FOIRL

5-4-3 rule

100BaseT

100BaseF

Finally, GbE

1000BaseT

1000BaseF

Whoa! Overshot the target!

10 Gig on Copper

Affordable 10 Gig on copper

Homer! You get control of this airplane this instant!

Sun GbE Implementations

Alteon NIC (vge)

GEM NIC (ge)

Cassini NIC (ce)

what parameters?

driver version?

netstat -k

netstat -k cont.

Broadcom NIC (bge)

bge Details

Getting and Setting Parameters

Using ndd to set parameters

ndd details

Using kstat(1M) to get parameters

Using /etc/system to set parameters

Troubleshooting hints

kstat and netstat -l

pause needed?

Errors are important, even very small percentages

Long Fat Pipe (Sun ID73660)

References

References (Cont)

Author: Robert "Neil" Waybright