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48 Sun GigaSwift Ethernet Adapter Installation and User’s Guide • August 2004
In noninteractive mode, you invoke the utility to execute a specific command. Once
the command is executed, you exit the utility. In interactive mode, you can use the
utility to get or set more than one parameter value. Refer to the
ndd
(1M) man page
for more information.
▼ To Use the
ndd
Utility in Noninteractive Mode
This section describes how to modify and display parameter values.
● To modify a parameter value, use the
-set
option.
If you invoke the
ndd
utility with the
-set
option, the utility passes value, which
must be specified, down to the named
/dev/ce
driver instance, and assigns the
value to the parameter:
When you change any parameter, a message similar to the following appears:
● To display the value of a parameter, specify the parameter name and omit the
value.
When you omit the
-set
option, the utility queries the named driver instance,
retrieves the value associated with the specified parameter, and prints it:
▼
To Use the
ndd
Utility in Interactive Mode
●
To modify a parameter value in interactive mode, specify
ndd /dev/ce
:
After you enter the parameter name, the
ndd
utility prompts you for the parameter
value (see
TABLE 4-1
through
TABLE 4-12
).
# ndd -set /dev/ce
parameter value
ce0: xcvr addr:0x01 - link up 1000 Mbps full duplex
# ndd /dev/ce
parameter
# ndd /dev/ce
name to get/set? (Enter the parameter name or ? to view all
parameters)