Brief Tech Tip: Determine Speed and Duplex Settings in Solaris OS

According to a tech tip featured on the Big Admin webpage, "Solaris is often unable to correctly auto-negotiate duplex settings with a link partner (e.g. switch), especially when the switch is set to 100Mbit full-duplex. You can force the NIC into 100Mbit full-duplex by disabling auto-negotiation and 100Mbit half-duplex capability." Brandon Hutchinson, a sys admin consultant, provides a Bourne shell script available for download to determine the speed and duplex settings for all plumbed network interfaces on a Solaris system. [...read more...]

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Other articles in the Sysadmin section of Volume 102, Issue 5:

Solaris Files and File System Framework; Podcast and Chapter Available Online
BigAdmin Feature: Solaris ZFS: Data Management from Micro to Macro
Brief Tech Tip: Determine Speed and Duplex Settings in Solaris OS (this article)

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