How to Display Information About Physical Attributes of Data Links

This procedure lists the steps to display information about the physical attributes of a system's data links.

1. On the system, assume the System Administrator role.

   The System Administrator role includes the Network Management profile. To create the role and assign the role to a user, see Chapter 9, Using Role-Based Access Control (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Security Services.

2. Display information about physical attributes of data links currently on the system.

   # dladm show-phys -P

   You can use the -P with this command to also display data links that are flagged as unavailable. A data link becomes unavailable if its associated hardware has been removed. Without the -P option, the command displays only available data links.

   To view the /devices path of the data links, use the -v option.

Example 2–5 Displaying Available Data Links

In the following example, the -P option includes the FLAGS column where unavailable links are indicated. The r flag for the data link net0 indicates the hardware that is associated with the link (eri) has been removed.

# dladm show-phys -P
LINK        MEDIA          STATE     SPEED     DUPLEX     DEVICE   FLAGS
subitops1   Ethernet       up        100Mb     full       qfe3     -----
ibd0        Infiniband     down      0Mb       --         ibd0     -----
subitops0   Ethernet       up        100Mb     full       ce0      -----
net0        Ethernet       --        0Mb       --         eri0     r----

The following example shows the output that is generated when you use the -v option.

# dladm show-phys -v
LINK     PATH
net2     /pci@1f,700000/network@2
ibd3     /pci@1d,700000/network@2
bge3     /pci@1f,700000/network@2,1