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Page 2: ...P H O B O S P 4 3 0 P C I Q U A D P O R T 1 0 1 0 0 B A S E T N I C N E T W O R K I N T E R F A C E C A R D D R I V E R M A N U A L D A T A P R O P U L S I O N L A B S...

Page 3: ...ING DRIVER SOFTWARE W I N D O W S N T C H A P T E R 3 Loading the Software 3 1 Assigning Network Addresses 3 2 Configuring the Speed and Duplex 3 3 Loading and Configuring PhobosLink 3 4 INSTALLING DR...

Page 4: ...ding and Configuring PhobosLink 7 4 CONFIGURING PHOBOSLINK SETTINGS C H A P T E R 8 Advanced Features of PhobosLink 8 1 Priority Trunking 8 4 BASIC TROUBLE SH OOTING C H A P T E R 9 Examples 9 1 SPE C...

Page 5: ...ecific information in this guide I F YO U A R E L O O K I N G F O R T U R N T O P430 Features chapter 1 Instructions for inspecting the P430 chapter 2 Instructions for connecting to network chapter 2...

Page 6: ...italics are produced by the system Items offset by brackets are keys that you should press when instructed to do so Commands appear in single quotes like this command Important Notices C A U T I O N T...

Page 7: ...full duplex The P430 also supports PhobosLink Port Aggregation Software allowing up to 800 Mbps Full Duplex of network throughput The P430 has driver support for the following operating systems WINDO...

Page 8: ...400Mbps throughput on a single logical network connection Complies with the IEEE 802 3u standard for interoperability with other 10 100Base T compatible hubs switches and internet working equipment M...

Page 9: ...spect the P430 for obvious damage that may have occurred in shipping The package should contain the following items Phobos P430 10 100Base T Quadport NIC P430 Driver manual P430 PhobosLink Driver Disk...

Page 10: ...ked in an anti static bag to protect it from static charges Before removing the P430 NIC from the bag touch the metal chassis of your computer You can maintain grounding by wearing a wrist ground stra...

Page 11: ...ed into the PCI slot The set screw should easily secure the P430 in place C O N N E C T I N G T O T H E N E T W O R K This section describes how to connect 10Mbps or 100Mbps network cables to the P430...

Page 12: ...O T E The UTP wire pairs and pin definitions for 100Base TX are identical to those for 10Base T when used with Category 5 UTP cable The straight through connection should be made from the P430 through...

Page 13: ...IC should already be physically installed in your machine and Windows NT should be up and running Use the installation disk CD ROM that came with your P430 If the P430 NIC is already installed in the...

Page 14: ...ose You will also need to click on Close again to exit out of the Network Control panel At this point the dialog appears for assigning network addresses A S S I G N I N G N E T W O R K A D D R E S S E...

Page 15: ...30 will automatically auto sense the correct speed Or you can disable the auto sensing and set the speed and duplex mode manually 1 Open Control Panel 2 Open Network 3 Click on the Adapters tab on the...

Page 16: ...nd have the other two ports as regular 10 100Base T connections or you can configure a single logical interface using all 4 of the P430 ports as a single trunk creating aggregate bandwidth of 400Mbps...

Page 17: ...If you make a mistake highlight the interface and use the Remove button this puts it back in the Available Interfaces window 5 Select the PhobosLink Connection Type The connection types are SYMMETRIC...

Page 18: ...metric and Asymmetric trunking modes also support failover Use this setting only to obtain failover functionality without trunking 6 Repeat the steps above to create other groups or trunks You can del...

Page 19: ...bed in full detail in the NetWare documen tation In addition the command line options supported by the drivers are described below for the benefit of experienced system administrators who may want to...

Page 20: ...ers to bridge between multiple IP or IPX networks or to attach a heavily used server to multiple IPX networks or IP subnets at once Installation using the INSTALL program 1 At the NetWare console scre...

Page 21: ...en will appear containing three windows labeled Protocols Parameters and Board Actions This screen will appear once for each P430 port available i e four times if you have a single P430 board plugged...

Page 22: ...I V E BU F F E R S Indicates the number of packets that can be received by the NIC and stored in the host s memory while waiting to be processed by the NetWare protocol stacks bound to the P430 drive...

Page 23: ...s to configure and then return to step 11 otherwise choose No C O M M A N D L I N E O P T I O N S F O R T H E D R I V E R For experienced system administrators who may want to install the driver manua...

Page 24: ...g This driver is typically used with servers that require a high bandwidth connection to a single logical IPX or TCP IP network beyond the performance that a single 100Mbps link could provide N O T E...

Page 25: ...ol stack to each slave port using the randomly chosen network number suggested by the INSTALL INETCFG program since the protocol stacks bound to the slave ports will not transmit or receive any actual...

Page 26: ...4 x with the ODI33F patch then enter Phobos nwserver 5x to select the NetWare 5 x driver 8 After a few seconds a menu should appear listing two different drivers P430 LAN and PHBSLINK LAN Choose PHBSL...

Page 27: ...only appear if this port is a master port i e if the values in the Port Number and Group Master Port Number fields are equal This field selects between three basic group types symmetric trunking asymm...

Page 28: ...ction type on the switch or NIC at the other end of the cable if one side is forced while the other is attempting to auto negotiate then the auto negotiation on the other end may not work properly cau...

Page 29: ...nu in the bottommost window The INSTALL program will then load the driver and ask you for protocol parameters for that port such as the IPX network number As mentioned above any protocol stacks bound...

Page 30: ...or master ports the INDEX and GROUP parameters will be equal for slave ports they will be different TYPE This string parameter selects the group type its value must be either SYMMETRIC ASYMMETRIC or F...

Page 31: ...ove TXRINGSIZE This option selects the number of transmit buffers for the driver to use Finally the P430 driver also supports the FRAME NODE and NAME command line options whose meanings are standardiz...

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Page 33: ...eady be physically installed in your machine and HP UX should be up and running Use the installation disk CD ROM that came with your P430 L O G I N Login as root or use the SU command to become root C...

Page 34: ...logical volume manager A suggested mount point is cdrom I N S TA L L I N G T H E D R I V E R F O R H P U X 10 20 O R L AT E R N O T E The following examples assume that you mounted the CD ROM on to t...

Page 35: ...can operate at either 10Mbps standard ethernet or 100 Mbps fast ethernet In either speed mode the inter face can be in half duplex or full duplex mode The factory default for the interface card is aut...

Page 36: ...0 0 ENTER this command should be on one line 2 Using pqfe_control To see what the current settings on the interface card s are just issue the command without any arguments pqfe_control ENTER The outpu...

Page 37: ...lex for both 100Mbps and 10Mbps The syntax for the pqfe_control command is pqfe_control i interface d half full s 10 100 a uto To set the operating speed of interface pqfe0 to 10Mbps and force it to s...

Page 38: ...s as a single trunk creating aggregate bandwidth of up to 800Mbps in full duplex The installation is similar to the P430 driver software Refer to the first two sections of this chapter HP UX must be u...

Page 39: ...If you make a mistake highlight the interface and use the Remove button this puts it back in the Available Interfaces window 5 Select the PhobosLink Connection Type The connection types are SYMMETRIC...

Page 40: ...LY This setting enables only failover capability Only one port will be used at a time with the link s serving as backup NOTE that the Symmetric and Asymmetric trunking modes also support failover Use...

Page 41: ...g Use the installation disk CD ROM that came with your P430 LOADING P430 DRIVER Login as root or use the SU command to become root C A U T I O N If you do not know the root password for the system con...

Page 42: ...he Phobos packages by typing pkgadd d cdrom solaris pkg At this point you will see the installation options The following packages are available 1 PHBSLINK Phobos PhobosLink Trunking Software 2 PHBSP4...

Page 43: ...nterface you plan to use If you wanted to use all of the adapter s interfaces then you would need to create four files For Example File name Instance Number etc hostname pqfe4 4 etc hostname pqfe5 5 e...

Page 44: ...auto negotiate with its link partner If the link partner does not support auto negotiation the card will automatically auto sense the link speed The P430 can be set to a speed and duplex mode disabli...

Page 45: ...speed mode that it was set For example assume the card is set for auto sensing It is currently operating at 100Mbps You set the full duplex mode You then attach the NIC to 10Mbps ethernet Since auto...

Page 46: ...anging the speed setting with the graphic based utility 1 Type usr bin PQFEControl and press ENTER The screen shown in figure 6 1 will appear 2 Enter the desired settings in the appropriate boxes 3 Cl...

Page 47: ...ctions or you can configure a single logical interface using all 4 of the P430 ports as a single trunk creating aggregate bandwidth of 400Mbps The installation is the same as for the P430 driver softw...

Page 48: ...group you plan to use If you wanted to use all of the adapter s interfaces into one trunk group then you would need to create 1 file For Example Filename Instance Number etc hostname plink4 4 Once th...

Page 49: ...nfig Once the software is loaded the screen shown in figure 4 1 will appear In this window you create links by selecting interfaces from the Available Interfaces window 2 Click Create Group A new grou...

Page 50: ...etting the P430 will balance the outgoing load across all the ports in the group but incoming data will only be received on one port FAILOVER ONLY This setting enables only failover capability Only on...

Page 51: ...mark to 64K This can be done with the ndd utility as follows 1 As superuser root type ndd set dev tcp tcp_xmit_hiwat 65535 ndd set dev tcp tcp_recv_hiwat 65535 ndd set dev tcp tcp_cwnd_max 65534 The c...

Page 52: ...g RedHat Linux Other versions of Linux will be similar but not necessarily the same The object modules were compiled without MODVERSIONS and should work on kernels with close revisions to 2 0 36 2 2 1...

Page 53: ...d again to install the PhobosLink software insmod plink ENTER At this point you must setup PhobosLink as described on page 7 4 before continuing 6 The new network interface name is pgeX or plinkX if y...

Page 54: ...e number 2 Edit the file created to add the following information with the appropriate values For example DEVICE pge0 or plink0 if using PhobosLink IPADDR 192 0 2 1 NETMASK 255 255 255 0 NETWORK 192 0...

Page 55: ...The installation is the same as for the P430 driver software Refer to the beginning of Chapter 6 Solaris must be up and running Use the installation disk CDROM that came with your P430 The NIC should...

Page 56: ...tch that supports and is configured for trunking For example Cisco s Fast EtherChannel or Sun Trunking ASYMMETRIC Use this setting if the ports on the P430 in the group are connected to a switch or sw...

Page 57: ...nd clicking on Delete Group 7 Click OK See figure 7 1 8 After the PhobosLink interface is configured and setup type chkconfig level 2345 phoboslink on This will ensure that the PhobosLink trunk groups...

Page 58: ...e the connection will not work properly In this mode packets will be sent and received symmetrically on all the ports in the group Asymmetric Trunking Should be used when the P430 ports in the group a...

Page 59: ...tive Mode the default Dynamically assigns packets going to a particular destination Ethernet address to the least heavily loaded port Fixed Mode Uses a static assignment scheme based on the desti nati...

Page 60: ...Link is the ability to do Priority Trunking Another way of describing this feature is bandwidth man agement on the NIC With priority trunking specific network traffic that is transmited out the NIC ca...

Page 61: ...s window priority settings are created deleted and modified The order of the priorites can also be rearranged To create a new priority press on the Add Priority button and the following window will ap...

Page 62: ...other internet protocols The other value allows the user to enter an additional value which corresponds to the information found in RFC 1700 The second feature to limit priority is by destination add...

Page 63: ...criteria is selected the last value inputted is the number of ports within the trunk that the network traffic described is limited to This value can t be larger than the number of ports in the entire...

Page 64: ...is not active check the light on the switch hub on the other end of the cable Each Phobos P430 NIC has three LEDs and one 10 100 PCI connector as shown in Figure 8 1 F I G U R E 8 1 If you experience...

Page 65: ...5 67 89 icmp_seq 1 ttl 225 time 1 ms 64 bytes from 123 45 67 89 icmp_seq 2 ttl 225 time 1 ms 64 bytes from 123 45 67 89 icmp_seq 3 ttl 225 time 1 ms 123 45 67 89 PING Statistics 4 packets transmitted...

Page 66: ...rom a DOS Prompt type ipconfig to display the protocol infor mation You should see something like this example ipconfig Ethernet adapter PhbsLink1 IP Address 101 100 99 98 Subnet Msk 255 255 0 0 Defau...

Page 67: ...ch servers you must use the NetWare 5 version of the P430 PhobosLink drivers located in the NetWare5 subdirectory on the driver disk 2 The P430 or PhobosLink driver does not load displaying a series o...

Page 68: ...WORK INTERFACE 100Base TX Ethernet IEEE 802 3 industry standard for a 100Mbps baseband DSMA CD local area network PHYSICAL DIMENSIONS Length 16 68 cm 6 57 in Height 8 76 cm 3 45 in ENVIRONMENTAL OPERA...

Page 69: ...O R P I N A S S I G N M E N T S N O T E When Category 5 UTP cable is used the pin assignments are identical for 10Base T and 100Base TX For more detailed information see page A 4 A 2 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1...

Page 70: ...al Building Wiring Standard and the Technical Services Bulletin TSB38 standards The maximum UTP cable length is 100 meters The Phobos P430 NIC 10 100Base TX twisted pair network connector pins are sho...

Page 71: ...RX RX TX TX 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NIC HUB STRAIGHT THROUGH 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 TX TX RX RX RX RX TX TX 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 NIC HUB CROSSOVER F I G U R E A 2 S T R A I G H T T H R O U G H A N D C R O S S O V E R P I...

Page 72: ...orporation s home web page is located at H H T T T T P P W W W W W W P P H H O O B B O O S S C C O O M M We maintain the last driver release at the FTP site F F T T P P P P H H O O B B O O S S C C O O...

Page 73: ...U G H P H O B O S C O R P O R AT I O N Technical support can also be obtained by calling Phobos Corporation between 0800 and 1700 Mountain Standard Time 1 1 8 80 00 0 9 92 25 5 4 42 26 66 6 or call 1...

Page 74: ...s going to a particular destination Ethernet address to the least heavily loaded port AGGREGATION See Trunking ASYMMETRIC PhobosLink setting for non trunking switches This setting allows PhobosLink to...

Page 75: ...signment scheme based on the destination address and is equivalent to the transmit policy used by most trunking switches INTERFACE See Port PRIORITY TRUNKING Bandwidth management on the NIC With prior...

Page 76: ...hardware device that links a node to a network cable it is both a transmitter and a receiver TRUNKING The ability to turn multiple physical ports into one logical connection The trunked ports will app...

Page 77: ...onfiguration P430 8 1 connecting to network 2 5 connector pin s A 2 conventions ii D diagnostic tests 9 1 drivers installing 3 1 4 1 5 1 6 1 7 1 driver support B 1 E environment A 1 F failover C 2 Fas...

Page 78: ...ing 2 1 specifications A 1 speed 3 4 troubleshooting 9 1 auto speed setting 3 4 3 5 package contents 2 2 PhobosLink software 7 1 pin assignments A 2 ping 8 3 Priority Trunking 8 4 R RJ 45 1 1 2 6 S se...

Page 79: ...slots and simplifying your network And with PhobosLink Software you can combine up to four P1000s giving you an aggregate bandwidth of up to 4Gpbs QUADPORT FAST ETHERNET Free up valuable server slots...

Page 80: ...full duplexing capabilities The P100 H supports HP UX 10 20 PHOBOSLINK SOFTWARE Let PhobosLink the new multi platform software suite from Phobos optimize the performance and availability of your netwo...

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