From: hoffman@xdelta.zko.dec.nospam Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 10:49 AM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Re: Disable onboard Ethernet card on AS 2100 In article <88ee1n$v46$1@nova.thezone.net>, "Keith Le Feuvre" writes: :We currently have an AlphaServer 2100 4/200 running OpenVMS 7.1-1H1 with an :onboard ethernet card configured as EWA-0. We have added an additional :DE500-BA 100-Base-T card configured as EWA-1. We want to disable the onboard :card so that the DE500-BA becomes EWA-0. Having something sensitive to a particular device name is generally bad news... Options include excluding EWA0: SYSMAN> IO SET EXCLUDE EWA0 Or suppressing all device autoconfiguration and configure everything else yourself... (Via the available device configuration mechanism or otherwise...) Or (usually recommended) use the network configuration scripts to disable the access to and use of the particular controller -- DECnet Phase IV NCP, DECnet-Plus NCL, and TCP/IP all have this ability. -- I know of no jumper to disable the Ethernet controller located on the embedded I/O module, nor an SRM command to disable its configuration... --------------------------- pure personal opinion --------------------------- Hoff (Stephen) Hoffman OpenVMS Engineering hoffman#xdelta.zko.dec.com