Appendix B
Configuring the Sun Quad FastEthernet Device Driver Parameters
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To Enable Autonegotiation Using the
ndd
Utility
This section describes how to set at least one of the four operational modes and
enable autonegotiation. See “Autonegotiation Protocol” on page 45 for more
information about the autonegotiation and operational modes.
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To Enable Autonegotiation
1. Use the
ndd
utility to select the
qfe
instance that you want to set.
See “Identifying Device Instances” on page 65 for more information.
2. Select at least one of the four operational mode parameters (
adv_100fdx_cap
,
adv_100hdx_cap
,
adv_10fdx_cap
,
adv_10hdx_cap
) that you want to advertise
to the remote link partner, and set its value to 1.
For example, to make the interface advertise a 10 Mbps, full-duplex mode, you
would type:
3. Use the
ndd
utility to enable autonegotiation mode by setting the
adv_autoneg_cap
parameter to 1.
# ndd -set /dev/qfe instance
instance-number
# ndd -set /dev/qfe adv_10fdx_cap 1
# ndd -set /dev/qfe adv_autoneg_cap 1
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