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Conference 7.286::fddi

Title:FDDI - The Next Generation
Moderator:NETCAD::STEFANI
Created:Thu Apr 27 1989
Last Modified:Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2259
Total number of notes:8590

1637.0. "" by NETRIX::"[email protected]" (Oyvind Christoffersen) Thu Mar 23 1995 07:37

Hello,

We have the following to servers:
DEC 3400                  defta-ua       VMS 6.1
Alphaserver 2100-4/200    defea-aa       VMS 6.1-1H2

Both are directly linked to a GIGAswitch and we want to verify that
they are operating in FDX mode??

Any input is very much welcomed.

regards,
Oyvind.
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1637.1NETCAD::STEFANIWelcome to the Revolution!Thu Mar 23 1995 08:0711
>>Both are directly linked to a GIGAswitch and we want to verify that
>>they are operating in FDX mode??
    
    Does HUBwatch for the GIGAswitch/FDDI display eFDXState?  If so, you
    can tell from that object as to whether a particular port has a FDX
    connection established.
    
    The only other way to know is from the end node.  I don't know how you
    would display eFDXState on OpenVMS, if supported.
    
    /l
1637.2NPSS::MDLYONSMichael D. Lyons DTN 226-6943Thu Mar 23 1995 11:1152
        ...any SNMP manager should be able to obtain either eFDXState or
    eFDXOp for the GIGAswitch/FDDI port.  If you don't have a SNMP manager,
    you can get it from OBM thusly:
    
 Main Menu -
      1 Show/Set IP Addresses
      2 Show/Modify GIGAswitch Configuration
      3 Show/Set Privileged Ports
      4 Show/Set Bootserver Ports
      5 Set OBM password
      6 Dump Mib-2 counters
      7 Show forwarding-database entry
      8 Do Get/GetNext of MIB variables
      9 Read/Set System Time
      10 Show number of addresses in SCP bridge forwarding database
      11 Show number of addresses in SCP bridge forwarding database
         which could not be stored in some line card
      12 Set line card forwarding table size
      13 End this session
    Choice: 8


 Mib-Viewer Menu -
      1 GET
      2 GETNEXT
      3 Return to Main menu
   Choice: 1

 Object Identifier: eFDXOp.1.1                       !  1.1 = port 1
     Object ID: eFDXOp.1.1                           ! (indexed by SMT.MAC)
     Value: 2                                        !  2 = False
 Object Identifier:
    
    
     Mib-Viewer Menu -
          1 GET
          2 GETNEXT
          3 Return to Main menu
       Choice: 1
    
     Object Identifier: eFDXState.29.29              ! port 29
         Object ID: eFDXState.29.29
         Value: 1                                    ! state = idle
     Object Identifier:
    
    
    
    eFDXOp = 1 = True
    eFDXState = 4 = Operation
    
    ...see also note 1468.*, where the same question about VMS was asked
    and didn't get answered there either..
1637.3NPSS::WADENetwork Systems SupportThu Mar 23 1995 11:5820
    Use SDA:
    
    $ anal/syst
    
    SDA> show lan
    
    .
    .
    .
    .
           LAN Data Structures
    
    LSB address  = 80DB56C0
    Device state = 00003003 RUN,INITED,RING_AVAIL,FDX
    .
    .
    .
    
    Bill