Lee,

When I set the following:

ifconfig e7 `hostname`-e7 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig e7 mediatype auto `hostname`-e7 netmask 255.255.255.0 timezone US/Eastern rc_toggle_basic alttune e7 LinkNegotiation 1 alttune e3 LinkNegotiation 1 alttune 1 LinkNegotiation 1 rc_toggle_basic route add default <mydefaultgateway> 1 routed on

What this does during boot is it locks up (no data or link light on the gigabit) If I manually remove the cable and then reconnect it (A manual force) it appears that everything is ok then. Is the problem the alteon (sp?) card doing negotiation or something entirely different ?

Mark Fowle IS/CAT-BCP Metahpase/Oracle/Unix Administration

lrazo@netapp.com on 12/17/99 12:54:00 PM

To: Walsh_Warren@htc.honeywell.com@INTERNET cc: toasters@mathworks.com@INTERNET (bcc: Mark D. Fowle/0V/Caterpillar) Subject: RE: toasters and auto negotiation Retain Until: 01/16/2000 Retention Category: G90 - Information and Reports

Hi Warren,

Were you using autonegotiation against full duplex? If so, that isn't going to work by the specs for auto-negotiation. I think the designers of the protocol assumed if your nic (or switch port) was too old to support autonegotiation, then it was to old to support full duplex.

So auto <--> half works and auto <--> auto works but auto <--> full won't by specification.

That is my understanding, at least. Feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

--Lee

On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Walsh, Warren (MN65) wrote:

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

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Lee Razo (lrazo@netapp.com) Network Appliance Europe Hoofddorp, Netherlands

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