2-8 Sun Fire X4100/X4100 M2 and X4200/X4200 M2 Servers Service Manual • August 2009
Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2 Ethernet Port Mapping
FIGURE 2-5 shows how various operating systems and interfaces name the four
Ethernet ports shown in
FIGURE 2-3.
FIGURE 2-5 Sun Fire X4100 M2/X4200 M2 Ethernet Port Mapping
Note – VMWare ESX 3.0.1: The Ethernet port that the user assigns to the service
console will be vmnic0. Other ports are mapped by ascending order of PCI bus
enumerations.
2.3.4 Ethernet Port (NIC) Boot Priority
Refer to the section that corresponds to your version of the server:
Sun Fire X4100/X4200 Servers Ethernet Port Boot Priority
The order in which the BIOS detects the Ethernet ports during bootup and the
corresponding drivers that control those ports are listed below:
1. NET 0 (Intel NIC 0)
2. NET 1 (Intel NIC 1)
3. NET 2 (Intel NIC 2)
4. NET 3 (Intel NIC 3)
e1000
g0
nge0 nge1
e1000
g1
slot
110
slot
108
slot
109
slot
111
eth0
eth2 eth3
eth1
eth2
eth0 eth1
eth3
net3
net net2
net4
BIOS Solaris 10 RHEL4/RHEL5
RHEL3/SUSE
Windows 2003
vmnic# vmnic#
VMWare ESX 3.0.1
vmnic# vmnic#
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