[Veritas-bu] Network performances dropped since upgrade

The V240 has GigE interfaces.

If you plugged it into a 100Mb/s switch, it may not have auto negotiated
properly.

Try hardcoding the interfaces to 100FD

Try this:
bash-2.03# dmesg|grep -i full
And/or
bash-2.03# dmesg|grep -i half

And see what it reports your net connection as.

If you find an entry reporting half, that's your prob.

Drop a script in /etc/rc2.d with the following in it:
(assuming you're using bge0....or replace with correct # for each
interface in use.)

ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_1000fdx_cap 0
ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_1000hdx_cap 0
ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_100fdx_cap 1
ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_100hdx_cap 0
ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_10fdx_cap 0
ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_10hdx_cap 0
ndd -set /dev/bge0 adv_autoneg_cap 0

I'm not sure, but I think you may be able to specify for the bge device
in general, and specify the instance separately, but I've just done it
as above, and it works.

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of 
> Louis-Luc Le Guerrier
> Sent: February 24, 2005 3:56 PM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Network performances dropped since upgrade
> 
> 
> Hello,
> I'm using Netbackup with Solaris 9.
> We're on a 100Mbps network, and we just upgraded the server
> from an Ultra Enterprise 2 to a SunFire V240, and we also
> upgraded from NB 5.0 MP2 to NB 5.1MP2.
> 
> The problem is that network performances dropped as if we
> were still running at 10Mbps, but we upgraded to 100Mbps
> a few months ago. When we were at 10 Mbps, backups completed
> with rates like from 300KB/s to 600KB/s, when we upgraded to
> 100Mbps, performances rose to 2000KB/s to 5000KB/s and some-
> times more. This was good on the old server with old NB
> version, but since the upgraded, performances dropped to
> 400KB/s to 500KB/s on nearly all Netbackup clients, but
> I checked and both the server and clients are running at
> 100Mbps according to 'ndd' command.
> 
> Does anyone have any clue about what's happening, and how
> to restore full performances, at least as good as on the
> old setup?
> 
> Thanks.
> Louis-Luc
> 
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