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Configuring physical ports on a Host Ethernet Adapter
You can use a Hardware Management Console (HMC) to configure the properties of each physical port on a Host Ethernet Adapter (HEA). These properties include port speed, duplex mode, maximum packet size, flow control setting, and the promiscuous logical partition for unicast packets. The physical port properties are also used by the logical ports that are associated with each physical port. HEAs are also known as Integrated Virtual Ethernet adapters (IVE adapters).
To configure physical ports on an HEA using the HMC, follow these steps:
- In the navigation pane, open Systems Management and click Servers.
- In the work pane, select the managed system whose HEAs you want to configure, click the Tasks button, and select .
- Select the HEA in Choose a Physical Location Code to view / modify that Host Ethernet Adapter's information.
- In the Current Status table, select a physical port that you want to configure and click Configure.
- Change the HEA physical port configuration settings as necessary and click OK.
- Repeat steps 4 and 5 for any other physical ports that you want to configure.
- When you are done configuring physical ports, click OK.
After this procedure is complete, you might need to reconfigure
any logical ports that are associated with the changed physical ports.
For example, if you change the maximum packet size on the physical
port, you might also need to access the operating systems that use
the resources on that physical port and change the maximum packet
size for the corresponding logical ports.
