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54 Sun Dual 10GbE XFP PCI Express Card User’s Guide • May 2010
▼ To Check Layer 3 Configuration
● Check the Layer 3 configuration by using the dladm command with the show-
link option, as shown in the following example:
Enabling Jumbo Frames in a Linux
Environment
This section describes how to enable jumbo frames in a Linux environment.
▼ To Enable Jumbo Frames in a Linux
Environment
1. Ensure that the nxge software is installed.
2. Plumb the Sun x8 Express Dual 10 Gigabit Ethernet Fiber XFP Low Profile
Adapter interface:
where xxx.xxx.xx.xxx is the IP address of the interface.
3. Set the MTU for maximum performance:
Where x is the instance number of the interface you want to configure jumbo
frames on.
# dladm show-link
e1000g0 type: non-vlan mtu: 1500 device: e1000g0
e1000g1 type: non-vlan mtu: 1500 device: e1000g1
e1000g2 type: non-vlan mtu: 1500 device: e1000g2
e1000g3 type: non-vlan mtu: 1500 device: e1000g3
nxge0 type: non-vlan mtu: 9194 device: nxge0
nxge1 type: non-vlan mtu: 9194 device: nxge1
nxge38001 type: vlan 38 mtu: 9194 device: nxge1
# modprobe nxge
# ifconfig eth2 xxx.xxx.xx.xxx up
# ifconfig eth x mtu 9194