QLogic 7104-1M-CABLE User Manual

6–Configuring Drivers and Services

OpenFabrics Drivers and Services Configuration and Startup

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Create VirtualNIC interface configuration files. For each Ethernet interface
defined in the /etc/sysconfig/qlgc_vnic.cfg file, create an interface

configuration file, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<NAME>

(or /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-<NAME> on Linux 2.6 kernels),

where <NAME> is the value of the NAME field specified in the CREATE
block.

Following is an example of ifcfg-eiocx setup for Red Hat systems:

DEVICE=eioc1
BOOTPROTO=static
IPADDR=172.26.48.132
BROADCAST=172.26.63.130
NETMASK=255.255.240.0
NETWORK=172.26.48.0
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet

Following is an example of ifcfg-eiocx setup for SuSE and SLES

systems:

BOOTPROTO=’static’
IPADDR=’172.26.48.130’
BROADCAST=’172.26.63.255’
NETMASK=’255.255.240.0’
NETWORK=’172.26.48.0’
STARTMODE=’hotplug’
TYPE=’Ethernet’

Start the QLogic VNIC driver and the QLogic VNIC interfaces. Once you
have created a configuration file, you can start the VNIC driver and create
the VNIC interfaces specified in the configuration file by running the
following command (as a root user):

# /etc/init.d/qlgc_vnic start

You can stop the VNIC driver and bring down the VNIC interfaces by running
the following command:

# /etc/init.d/qlgc_vnic stop

To restart the QLogic VNIC driver, run the following command:

# /etc/init.d/qlgc_vnic restart

If you have not started the InfiniBand network stack (InfiniPath or OFED),
then running the

/etc/init.d/

qlgc_vnic start command also starts

the InfiniBand network stack, since the QLogic VNIC service requires the
InfiniBand stack.