Re: HME resolved... at least for now.
"Charles R. Anderson" <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 07:47:34AM -0700, Jeremy Huber wrote: jhuber> > What Bay switch was that exactly? When you forced the Sun to 100 jhuber> > Full-duplex, did you also force the switch side to Full-duplex? If not, jhuber> > that was your problem. jhuber> jhuber> BaySwitch 303 (1 100Mb uplink, 24 10Mb switched ports). The ghetto thing is jhuber> that you CAN'T set the 10Mb ports to anything other than half duplex, which jhuber> what was wierd about the whole thing.. The kernel said it was forcing it to jhuber> 10Mb half, which is all the switch can do. (Even though it didn't seem to jhuber> complain when I set the card to 10Mb Full.. it was just a little jumpy) jhuber> Now, the one thing I didn't try was to use ethtool and force the card to jhuber> 10Mb half anyway, just in case it was still trying to autoneg. At any rate, jhuber> it's still happy as a clam on the 10/100 hub. Well, it is extremely rare to find a 10Mb-only port that does full duplex (unless it is a 10/100 port). I remeber one particular 3com ethernet card that did 10/half, 10/full, and 100/half, but not 100/full. That was certainly a weird combination... -- Charles R. Anderson <[email protected]> / http://angus.ind.wpi.edu/~cra/ PGP Key ID: 49BB5886 Fingerprint: EBA3 A106 7C93 FA07 8E15 3AC2 C367 A0F9 49BB 5886