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Logging and Auditing

Detailed Configuration Information

Understanding the Gigabit Ethernet Parameters

Using the lanadmin Tool with Gigabit Ethernet

Performance and Tuning Considerations

Fast Ethernet-Specific Information

4 Troubleshooting

Flowchart 1: Cable and LED Test

Flowchart 2: Link Level Test

Flowchart 3: Network Level Tests

Flowchart 4: ARP Test

Flowchart 5: ping Test

Flowchart 5 (continued)

Flowchart 6: Transport Level Test

Flowchart 7: Bridge/Gateway Loopback Test

Flowchart 8: Configuration Tests

Flowchart 9: ioscan and lanscan Tests

Flowchart 10: netfmt and lanadmin Tests

Flowchart 11: ifconfig Test

Network Level Test for Jumbo Frames (Gigabit Ethernet only)

Test Procedure

Ethernet-Specific Information

Contacting Your HP Representative

A Technical Specifications

Gigabit Ethernet
- The Meaning of the LEDs

Card Specifications

A4924A / A4925A / A4926A Specifications

A4929A Specifications

A6825A/A6847A Specifications

Fast Ethernet

PCI-X 10/100Base-TX card Specifications
- One-Port cards (B5509AA/A5230A)

Four-Port card (A5506A)

B Cabling Requirements

Gigabit Ethernet
- Connectors
- Cabling

Back-to-Back Connection

10/100Base-TX Ethernet

Connectors
- PCI-X 10/100Base-TX card Twisted-Pair Connector
- Connector Pin Usage for 10- Mbit/s Twisted-Pair Connector

FigureB1 Pin Layout of RJ-45 Connector on PCI-X Card

Connector Pin Usage for 100- Mbit/s Twisted-Pair Connector

Cabling

C Worksheets

Gigabit Ethernet Worksheets
- Network Card Configuration Worksheet

D Card Statistics

Glossary

Troubleshooting

Ethernet-Speciﬁc Information

Chapter 4

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Ethernet-Speciﬁc Information

This section provides references to information and useful tools for installing,

conﬁguring and maintaining Ethernet products.

Error Messages

Gigabit Ethernet comes with an online message catalog that is used to report

networking problems. You must use the nettl logging and tracing utility to display the

probable cause and action for a message.

Logging Messages

Ethernet uses the nettl(1M) logging and tracing facility supplied with HP-UX. You

may access the logging and tracing utility using either the graphical user interface (GUI)

version or the command-line interface. The names of the log ﬁles produced by NetTL are:

• For releases prior to HP-UX 11i: nettl.LOG-00 and nettl.LOG-01

• For release HP-UX 11i and later: nettl.LOG000 and nettl.LOG001

Features of the GUI version, which are now a part of your HP system, include:

• An interface that guides you through logging and tracing tasks

• An interface that allows you to create and format reports

• The capability to collect logging and tracing subsystem-speciﬁc information

• Report screens that are updated instantaneously with current logging and tracing

information by the subsystem

• Context-sensitive online help

To access the GUI version of the logging and tracing utility, enter:

$ nettladm

See the nettladm(1M) manpage for information on using the GUI version, or the

nettl(1M) manpage for information on using the command-line interface.

Listed below are some example commands using the command-line interface. Note that

these examples apply only to HP-UX 11i, or later.

• To examine the log ﬁle with cause and action descriptions, enter:

$ netfmt -v -f /var/adm/nettl.LOG000 | more

The -v option enables the reporting of available cause and action descriptions for

each log message. A sample log message using the -v option follows:

***********Gigabit Ethernet LAN Networking***********

Timestamp : Mon Aug 3 PDT 1998 18:37:16.175754

Process ID : [ICS] Subsystem:GELAN

User ID ( UID ) : -1 Log Class:DISASTER

Device ID : 3 Path ID: 0

Connection ID : 0 Log Instance: 0