NIC Card Failure Detection

[phanigandeed]

HI,

I am trying to understand how to find NIC Card failure on a Solaris box,
using a solaris command.

If I have the list of interface devices with me, can I poll by providng that
interface identifier. Or, if there is a command, which lists each of the interface
and its status as (functional, non functional).

Please help,
Phani.

[Driscoll]

Use ifconfig -a

See this Ipconfig for Linux

and Use following to see how you connected:

# grep -i link /var/adm/messages

You will see all of the instances that your system came up and how the connection is negotiated.

[phanigandeed]

No.
Does it give any error statement which is parsable thru parsing logic?

[Patio]

Actually i'm not getting what you are looking for. But run this command in terminal : "ifconfig" It will list all the interfaces and their state with its configurations...

[phanigandeed]

What I am looking is:

if there exists a NIC card on solaris box.

From remote unix machine, if I want to check what is the status (say it
is proper, or failed card) can I check using ifconfig command.

How does it give the status of failed card which is not discovered by ifconfig

Thanks
Phani

[linux.]

dladm show-link

Use the above command to see all your physical interfaces, to get the other physical interface up, find out the interface name /w the cmd above and use ifconfig to bring it up.