On Mon, 10 Nov 1997, Brian Pawlowski wrote:
-> One of my clients is complaining that performance between Solaris 2.5.1 -> systems (mainly Ultra 1s and 3000s) and an F210 is pretty damn awful. (The -> 210 is to be used for syslog, so the amount of disk writes isn't *that* -> high). -> -> I got him to switch to NFS v2 and UDP to get around timeout issues, but -> performance still sucks. - -But I have a few loose comments on generally debugging a performance -problem with a 100BaseT switch involved. - -I believe the on-board 100BaseT (and the single port 100BaseT PCI card) -does not support autonegotiation of full vs. half duplex.
Our 10/100 HME interfaces to indeed auto-negotiate sometimes. It seems most reliable on Solaris 2.6. I haven't had very happy results with Solaris 2.5.1 yet, but I can't experiment much on those older machines because they are in production.
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