Hi,

> I'm using an older Gigabit-Fiber card (ge driver, the one that shares
> /w FC 1 gig port) on my E450 server & solaris 8 with no issues other
> than a 'small' number of imput errors.  I called Sun on the errors
> long time ago and they said as long as the amount was less than 1-2%
> of total throughput (it is) then should be OK.  My FC port is not in
> use.

We've got E450s using ge driver as well - no issues on these machines.

>
> This card has been in that nsrd server since day one (~ Aug 01), and
> is quite happy otherwise.  It runs 8 (now 7) x DLT7000 drives.
>
> We have gigabit-copper (ce driver) ports on other systems as well with
> no issues, on 480 and 880, both native port and couple generations of
> PCI card.  We don't use trunking though, each port ends up in
> different subnets for different kinds of data.
>
> My guess from experience is that the Sun Trunking software package
> (you're using this, right?) is having issues, or is misconfigured
> against the Cisco somehow.  We had a lot of initial issues in
> configuring the server's Gig-Fiber (on both sides) as it was the first
> server to go that way.

No, we're not using Trunking anymore. We tried to use it, hit problems then
removed it to see if that was causing the hard hangs. We still saw the
issues when running 2 cards and pushing the machine hard.....

Mark

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