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