etherenet problems with solaris 10 X2100 server

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1.SATA support under Solaris 10 and X2100

I understand the new X2100 has SATA disks although Solaris 10 does not 
support SATA just yet. Are the SATA disks on the X2100 run under IDE 
comptability mode or is there a secret patch out there ??

Does this mean that when I buy a X2100 I have to use the standard Solaris 
image delivered and I can not jumpstart it because the drivers are not 
available in Solaris 10 03/05?

What brand/type is the SATA controller in the X2100?

Regards,

Marcel 

2.Configuring a server to diskless boot a client on Solaris 10 x86 Server

Hi All,
Can anyone please guide how to make diskless client boot from network
from a solaris x86 server. Especially, i want to know what goes into
/tftpboot directory, what should be exported by NFS. Also I want to use
GRUB for this purpose. Moreover, I dont want to specify MAC address of
client (Because I have many clients what are supposed to be booted from
network).


Thanks in advance.

3.Sun LDAP server on Solaris 10 compared to Solaris 8

Hi,
i have one application, designed for Solaris 8 which I would like to install 
on Solaris 10. Application ships with sun Directory server/ldap that needs 
to be installed first (old 5.x DS).
Old DS expects system library libldap.so.3 (which is present on Solaris 8) 
and libldap.so.4 is installed on Solaris 10. I also think that they reside 
in different direcotry (I don't have server in front of me, I am writing 
this by memory).
First, I am not sure if ldap server comes preinstalled on Sol10, or one 
needs to install it.
My question is: what would be recommended way of using Sun ldap on Solaris 
10:
-either to install old DS (which is accompanying that application) on Sol10 
and then tweak with libraries, link libldap.so.4. to a fake name 
libldap.so.3 or similar ...
-or download and install new DS ? I am afraid that there is some differences 
in ldap versions which could break that application.

thanks,
jmiklo

4.ftp rate trouble between Solaris 8 and Solaris 10 servers

Hello

We have a ftp rate trouble between 2 servers :  one under Solaris 8 , other 
under Solaris 10 :

Server Solaris 8 -> Solaris 10   : rate between 10 and 30 kbytes/s  only
Server Solaris 10 -> another Solaris 10 : rate > 1  Mbyte/s     : fine
Server Solaris 10 ->  PC Linux : rate > 900 kbytes/s              : fine
Server Solaris 8  ->  PC Linux : rate > 900 kbytes/s               : fine

The Solaris 10 server uses the new RBAC feature with
 - tcp wrapper : activated  + /etc/host.allow  allows user to perform ftp 
tasks
 - ftp service activated with svcadm and inetadm

The Solaris 8 server uses the inetd.conf as usual , no firewall

So the ftp is working ( the service is activated ) , but at a very low rate 
between the Sun servers.
Is there a special configuration to setup to allow an higher ftp rate ?

(Interface on each side is configured 100 Mb Full Duplex )

Thanks

5.Two Solaris 10 / Solaris Express problems: network + audio

Hello group,

I've got two rather annoying problems (bugs?) that seem to like the
warmth and comfort of my Ultra 2, and have made it their home ever since
I upgraded to Solaris 10.

As my machine is on the very low end of what is compatible with Solaris
10, I thought it might be a ressources problem. I gunned down as may
useless (for me) services as possible, which had the nice effect to
lighten its burden, but didn't really change anything. The bugs just
show up faster now. :)

The first one is a classical problem of network connection. It only
happened very slightly on Solaris 10 stock, but it's been a nightmare
with Solaris Express 04/2005. The symptoms are fairly common: impossible
to open a connection to a remote host. I've tried all tricks from the
book, such as poking around with /dev/tcp and /dev/ip, but to no
result... What is real weird is the fact that it seems to happen with
any server, not only the ones that wouldn't support mtu discovery (the
classical answer to those symptoms)... For example, the whole connection
gets stuck in the middle of a web page: first half loads perfectly, and
at some point a connection to load a picture doesn't open, and it
freezes. The solution is to reload the page... It does not only happen
with Firefox, but also with wget, newsgrab, you name it. It's
unpredictable, but highly recurrent. I've calculated that roughly one
out of 4 or 5 connection gets stuck (Solaris Express), which means that
most network usage is quite painful.

On the other hand, once the connection is established, everything is
working just fine. I don't know enough of the Solaris internals to find
what is the next step (Apple? hehe :), so if anyone (at Sun?) has any
idea, or wishes to have me to try some sort of test / debug, I'll be
happy to oblige. Here is what I've done for now:
/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/ip ip_path_mtu_discovery 0
/usr/sbin/ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_mss_max_ipv4 536  (tried 1460, nada)
(they're living in /lib/svc/method/net-init)

Netstat output:
Name  Mtu  Net/Dest  Address    Ipkts  Ierrs Opkts  Oerrs Collis Queue
lo0   8232 loopback  localhost  8      0     8      0     0      0
hme0  1500 arpanet   xxxxxxxx   958083 489   531924 0     0      0
(Soo. There ARE some errors. :) They look normal at this point.)

In the end, it looks to me as if there was some packet drop somewhere on
the way. I haven't changed a thing in my router / DSL / home network
config since my Solaris 9 days, and it worked just fine at that time.


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On to the audio problem now: this one hasn't changed between Solaris 10
and Express. I'm using the onboard SUNW,CS4231, and it shows a strange
behaviour: when an application (xmms, mplayer) tries to refill the audio
buffer (changing mp3 track, or chamging scene in a DVD), I usually hear
a very soft "spok" (static noise) in my speakers, and then, silence, and
the application freezes. Xmms goes the way of the doodoo (kill -9),
while mplayer tries to synchronise video with audio, doesn't succeed (a
few frame jumps), gives up, but is still reactive. If I change scenes
half a dozen times, at some point audio will start playing again, and
the film will resume.

What is strange is that both those players use the Sun audio interface,
not ESD or whichever library. Any clue?



OK, so here is the end. Thanks a lot to anyone suggesting anything, I'm
a bit lost here and now. :)

Regards,
D.

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