This gets even better -- our 720 hated explicit modes talking to our Cabletron SSR-8 (the former YAGO switch-router). We had run into many problems with auto negotiation on other parts of our network and when we brought the 720 online we set it to 100tx-fd and it seemed to run at 10/half duplex. When our NetApp SE came out, all we could do to fix the problem was change back to auto negotiation.
b e kiefer aka the king of carrot flowers a robert schneider enthusiast
----- Original Message ----- From: Walsh, Warren (MN65) Walsh_Warren@htc.honeywell.com To: toasters toasters@mathworks.com Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 9:01 AM Subject: RE: toasters and auto negotiation
We recently converted our 330 and 540 from FDDI to 100BaseT. We found
that
we had to manually force both the 100BaseT card in the toaster and the specific port on our Cabletron Smart Switch 9000 to 100BaseT-FD. For the 100BaseT card, it was simply changing the auto to 100tx-fd:
ifconfig e5 `hostname`-e5 mediatype 100tx-fd netmask 255.255.248.0
Funny how that auto-negotiation thing never really works, and how much it really affects performance.
-warren
Warren Walsh Honeywell Technology Center
-----Original Message----- From: Mark D Fowle [mailto:Fowle_Mark_D@CAT.com] Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 6:24 AM To: toasters Cc: Bruce A Seelinger Subject:
Has anyone experienced the following problem - When my F740 reboots it
will
not come up on line. My work around at the present time is to pull the gigabit cable out of the flier then putting it back on. This seems to "wake-up" the connection. I have not been able to figure our exactly
whats
going on and our network administrator has looked at the Cisco 5505 on a wsx5403 (a 3 port
gigabit)
-- Notice the 0.0.0.0 for adding the default, "default" stopped working ---
---------rc file ---------- #Auto-generated by setup Mon Oct 18 07:53:04 EDT 1999 hostname filer1 ifconfig e7 `hostname`-e7 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig e7 mediatype auto `hostname`-e7 netmask 255.255.255.0 timezone US/Eastern route add 0.0.0.0 <our gateway> 1 routed on rc_toggle_basic alttune e3 LinkNegotiation 1 rc_toggle_basic ypset < our dns server> rc_toggle_basic savecore exportfs -av nfs on