Re: HME resolved... at least for now.

"Charles R. Anderson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.aurora.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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...

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