HP-UX B.11.23 U ia64

How can we verify what the underlying network adapter is using for the
communication, is it the 1G Ethernet or the Infiniband? Or something
else?

Alex Vinokur
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Alex Vinokur <alexvn@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> HP-UX B.11.23 U ia64

> How can we verify what the underlying network adapter is using for the
> communication, is it the 1G Ethernet or the Infiniband? Or something
> else?

Well, if this is all IP-over-foo, you could run tcpdump or nettl on
each of the interfaces in turn to see if you can see your traffic.

Or if you know the "other" interface(s) should be quiet you could look
at link-level statistics with lanadmin (or whatever is used for IB if
it doesn't support lanadmin).

The "omni" tests in top-of-trunk netperf will make a _guess_ as to
what interface they are using based on doing a route lookup.

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On May 12, 8:08*pm, Rick Jones <rick.jon...@hp.com> wrote:

[snipped]

> Well, if this is all IP-over-foo, you could run tcpdump or nettl on
> each of the interfaces in turn to see if you can see your traffic.
>
> Or if you know the "other" interface(s) should be quiet you could look
> at link-level statistics with lanadmin (or whatever is used for IB if
> it doesn't support lanadmin).

[snipped]


1. tcpdump is missing on our HP.

2. nettl: This command requires superuser capabilities.

3. But in man nettl I found out utility nettlconf

> nettlconf -status

[--omitted--]
185 GELAN D E Gigabit Ethernet LAN/9000 Networking
210 btlan D E 100 Mb/s LAN/9000 Networking
233 intl100 D E 100 Mb/s LAN/9000 Networking
244 NS_LS_IPV6 D E ARPA/9000 NETWORKING
245 NS_LS_ICMPV6 D E ARPA/9000 NETWORKING
246 DLPI D E DLPI Subsystem
247 VLAN D E VLAN Subsystem
249 NS_LS_LOOPBACK6 D E ARPA/9000 NETWORKING
252 IGELAN D E Gigabit Ethernet LAN/9000 Networking
253 IETHER D E 100BT/Gigabit Ethernet LAN/9000
Networking
257 WBEMProvider-LAN D E LAN
258 SYSADMIN D E NETWORKING
264 LVMPROVIDER D E LVM

My question: What is "network adapter is using for the communication"
here? IGELAN ?



4. Via lanadmin I have got the following result.


LAN INTERFACE STATUS DISPLAY
Mon, May 12,2008 20:05:58

PPA Number = 0
Description = lan0 HP PCI-X 1000Base-T Release B.
11.23.0609
Type (value) = ethernet-csmacd(6)
MTU Size = 1500
Speed = 1000000000

Rick, thank you.

..
Alex Vinokur
email: alex DOT vinokur AT gmail DOT com
http://mathforum.org/library/view/10978.html
http://sourceforge.net/users/alexvn

Alex Vinokur <alexvn@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> 1. tcpdump is missing on our HP.

HP Internet Express bits via software.hp.com -or-
http://www.tcpdump.org/ for bits you can compile yourself.

> 2. nettl: This command requires superuser capabilities.

> 3. But in man nettl I found out utility nettlconf

> > nettlconf -status

> [--omitted--]
> 185 GELAN D E Gigabit Ethernet LAN/9000 Networking
> 210 btlan D E 100 Mb/s LAN/9000 Networking
> 233 intl100 D E 100 Mb/s LAN/9000 Networking
> 244 NS_LS_IPV6 D E ARPA/9000 NETWORKING
> 245 NS_LS_ICMPV6 D E ARPA/9000 NETWORKING
> 246 DLPI D E DLPI Subsystem
> 247 VLAN D E VLAN Subsystem
> 249 NS_LS_LOOPBACK6 D E ARPA/9000 NETWORKING
> 252 IGELAN D E Gigabit Ethernet LAN/9000 Networking
> 253 IETHER D E 100BT/Gigabit Ethernet LAN/9000
> Networking
> 257 WBEMProvider-LAN D E LAN
> 258 SYSADMIN D E NETWORKING
> 264 LVMPROVIDER D E LVM

> My question: What is "network adapter is using for the communication"
> here? IGELAN ?

ioscan -fkC lan and see what driver it reports. Not sure if that
command will show the IB card or not.

rick jones
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