Re: Quick question about Ethernet ports on an E4A with LAN Console

Look at the section "To connect the Ethernet cable or Operations Console
serial cable" at:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/power6?topic=console-step-1-cabling-operations-your-server
It will tell you the exact port number for your lan console in your picture.


To connect the Ethernet cable or Operations Console serial cable

On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 3:26 PM James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 4/28/23 10:11 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:

Lot of the usual tricks vary on whether or not this is a single lpar
machine, whether the ethernet is virtualized by VIOS, etc
For example, one could do a WRKLIND and look at the resource name.

All that presupposes that the machine is currently up and running. It is
not; if it were, I wouldn't be asking the question.

And it is *strictly* a LAN Console machine. *NOT* HMC. A 520 (Power 6,
8203-E4A).

We've moved it to a new office. It has not been powered up yet. In the
original installation, we simply plugged both the main and console
Ethernet ports into the same LAN, because that was the most viable
option: there was simply no place to put a WinDoze box in the same room.
The circumstances have changed: it is now very practical to put the
console WinDoze box on a separate LAN. More practical than to put them
on the same LAN.

And to complicate matters, I wasn't the one who unplugged the Ethernet
cables. And the individual who did only marked them "top" and "bottom,"
which would tend to suggest that they were one directly on top of the
other.

And looking at it again, I see *four* Ethernet sockets, rather than just
two. Picture posted at https://flic.kr/p/2owyZ1x

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JHHL

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