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Xsigo OEL linux driver installtion

First check if the PCI card is visble to the system lspci |grep Mellanox 06:00.0 Network controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3] 09:00.0 InfiniBand: Mellanox Technologies MT26428 [ConnectX VPI PCIe 2.0 5GT/s – IB QDR / 10GigE] (rev b0) Then install the Xsigo burn utiltiy rpm ivh xsigo-hca-firmware-4.0.3.r177.XGBOOT-1.i386.rpm Then make sure to burin the Xsigo …

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Configuring LACP bonding on RedHat, CentOS

Setting up LACP on Redhat linux Modify /etc/modprobe.conf (Not needed as of RHEL and OEL 6+) cat /etc/modprobe.conf alias eth0 igb alias eth1 igb alias bond0 bonding options bond0 mode=4 miimon=100 lacp_rate=1 xmit_hash_policy=layer3+4 alias scsi_hostadapter aacraid alias scsi_hostadapter1 ahci In order for the kernel bonding module to come up when the machine boots, create a …

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Solaris network statistics utility (only Solaris 10)

Capturing Network statistics on Solaris 10 Latest nicstat utility is available here. The latest nicstat utility is compiled and might work better, below is the older perl version. The latest version is also on sourceforge Example script output Time Int rKB/s wKB/s rPk/s wPk/s rAvs wAvs  %Util Sat 00:26:33 aggr1 60562.9 1521.4 41090.4 20494.1 1509.3 …

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