I'm new to Solaris 10, and I have been unable to find out how to set the 
network speed up to 1 gb...

In answer to a script I found here:
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.solaris/browse_thread/thread/
35414fd67adcd7ff
/817b575dcb5a7413?lnk=st&q=%22solaris%22+%22link_speed%22+1000&rnum=1&hl=
en#817b575dcb5a7413
(on this newsgroup), I got the following results:
eri0 ifspeed 100000000, link_duplex 2

If I am not mistaken, I need to run something like:
ndd -set /dev/eri link_speed 1000
operation failed: Permission denied

I'm confused, FreeBSD was easier to set the speed. Please help.

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, roq wrote:

> I'm new to Solaris 10, and I have been unable to find out how to set the 
> network speed up to 1 gb...

GBE pretty much mandates auto-negotiation, so assuming your switch
is set up corrcetly, you should be getting GB speeds out of the box.
You shouldn't need to configure anytning.

> I'm confused, FreeBSD was easier to set the speed. Please help.

The default settings work out of the box on Solaris; it doesn't
get any easier than that.  :-)

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On 2006-10-30, Rich Teer <rich.teer@rite-group.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, roq wrote:
>
>> I'm new to Solaris 10, and I have been unable to find out how to set the 
>> network speed up to 1 gb...
>
> GBE pretty much mandates auto-negotiation, so assuming your switch
> is set up corrcetly, you should be getting GB speeds out of the box.
> You shouldn't need to configure anytning.
>
>> I'm confused, FreeBSD was easier to set the speed. Please help.
>
> The default settings work out of the box on Solaris; it doesn't
> get any easier than that.  :-)
>

Thanks. I just found out that the network card doesn't support 1gb, so 
that was the issue.

roq wrote:

> I'm new to Solaris 10, and I have been unable to find out how to set the 
> network speed up to 1 gb...
> 
> In answer to a script I found here:
> http://groups.google.com/group/comp.unix.solaris/browse_thread/thread/
> 35414fd67adcd7ff
> /817b575dcb5a7413?lnk=st&q=%22solaris%22+%22link_speed%22+1000&rnum=1&hl=
> en#817b575dcb5a7413
> (on this newsgroup), I got the following results:
> eri0 ifspeed 100000000, link_duplex 2
> 
> If I am not mistaken, I need to run something like:
> ndd -set /dev/eri link_speed 1000
> operation failed: Permission denied
> 
> I'm confused, FreeBSD was easier to set the speed. Please help.

The link should autonegotiate to the highest speed supported by both 
ends!  It should not be necessary to set the speed unless something is 
seriously broken somewhere.

What does it do if you restore the default settings on the Solaris end 
and set the switch port to autonegotiate?  What are you using for a switch?