NIC Card Failure Detection

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.

Use ifconfig -a

See this http://forums.techarena.in/operating...ms/1228602.htm

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.

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

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... :thumbup1:

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

Quote:

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dladm show-link

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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.