On Thu, 14 May 1998 18:15:29 CDT, sirbruce@ix.netcom.com wrote:

On 05/14/98 15:19:12 you wrote:

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How are the NICs on the F520 configured? How are the switch ports configured?

Make sure that the duplexes match on both ends.

And, after checking that, I would double-check your setup in terms of routing. Perhaps configurations and netstat -r for each BSD system and filer would be helpful.

This turned out to be the problem (and I feel stupid).

I would have sworn up and down and back and forth that I doublechecked everything on the networking side thoroughly --- but I didn't.

The NetApp works fine.

The FreeBSD box, though reporting that it was operating at 100bTX full-duplex, apparently wasn't.

The Catalyst to which the FreeBSD box terminates was manually set to 100bTX fd, but when I switched it to half duplex, things took right off.

The odd part is that there weren't substantial errors reported by the Cat with the differing duplex between the FreeBSD box and the Cat. That confuses me a bit -- I would have expected frame errors and whatnot. I'm not certain if I've got a bad NIC (Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B) in the machine or if I've misconfigured it, but I can sort all that out on my own.

My apologies for the goose chase ... I really thought I had looked heavily at the network side before sending the post.

Brett

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